Academician of the Imperial Academy of fine Arts in sculpture. A native Finn, was born in 1838; educated abroad and in 1874 was recognized as an academician of the sculpture for the statue of marble "Sleeping Cupid" and a group from the cast of "Psyche and Cupid"; these groups he exhibited at the Vienna world Exhibition of 1873 in the Russian Department of fine arts; at the Paris world Exhibition of 1877 Runeberg has earned a "certificate of commendation" issued to them by the work: "Psyche with on Jupiter's eagle," "Psyche with the lamp", "Psyche, carried by a marshmallow," all the statues of marble. In addition, there are still following works Runeberg: "Apollo and Merles" (marble) bust of Professor Nordenshelda (marble), carved after the return of Nordenshelda of his polar journey, "marble tombstone with bas-relief representing the angel of peace (the monument is in a cemetery in Rome). Being chosen an academician in the Imperial Academy of Arts, Runeberg thanked last short letter, which, it seems, and limited participation of Runeberg in the Affairs of the Academy of fine Arts. In 1877 he was chosen a member of the Stockholm Academy of Arts. (Kondakov)
Finnish sculptor, son of the famous poet Johann Ludvig Runeberg, was born in Borgo. He studied at the University gelsingforsskay, but, feeling an attraction to the arts, have ceased to attend lectures of this institution and enrolled in the Imperial Academy of arts in St. Petersburg. where for some time he was a student of Professor of sculpture of Baron P. K. Klodt. After passing a course of drawing at the R.-V. eman, ABO, went to Copenhagen and for three years was perfected in sculpture at the local Academy of fine arts under the direction of G.-V. Bissen. Then, 1862-63 he spent in Rome, there is fashioned the figure of Silenus, who drew upon him General attention, and returned home in 1864-68, he produced a model of the statue "Ilmarinen, wykonywalnego the moon," for which playback of marble returned again to Rome, where from his workshop came the marble group of "Apollo and Marsyas" and "Psyche, carried by the Marshmallow" (located in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg), the statue "Psyche with the lamp", "Psyche with the eagle of Jupiter", etc. Since 1877 he settled in Paris and since then is engaged in the execution of mainly portrait statues and busts. The most important among his works must recognize the monuments of his father (1885) and Emperor Alexander II (1894), erected in Helsingfors. (Brockhaus)
