Hirvi / The Elk

Jussi Mäntynen made his debute as a sculptor of wild animals in 1923 at the Nordic hunting exhibition in Helsinki where he presented a nearly four-metre high plaster model of a male elk. The piece was greatly admired and it was proposed that it would be cast in bronze and erected in the Kaivopuisto park. The work was not, however, cast until a couple of years later. In 1928 it was placed in Viipur ...