Adolf Paul
Both studied with the famous Italian composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni, who brought them to Germany when he moved there from Helsinki in 1889.
The painting shows a red-haired woman bending her head over the neck of a man hiding his face in her lap.
[4] Collaborating with Sibelius, Paul discovered he was better at composing plays and novels than music and after a concert in Helsinki in 1891 focused on his writing.
Instead, The Ripper was published by Grönlund in Turku, Finland, but the book was controversial and critics considered some of its content obscene.
The main character passionately opposes the norms of the society, disdains the bourgeoisie and has a sense of spiritual superiority.
[6] The second novel in the En bok om en människa series titled Med det falska och det ärliga ögat (With the false and the honest eye) was published in 1895 and dedicated to Paul's piano teacher Ferruccio Busoni.
This book was mainly about free love and the conflict between the carnal and the intellectual, and contained characters based on Paul's artist friends in Berlin.
The novel's main character is an artist who delivers a different work than the portrait he was commissioned to paint, enraging his client.
[9] Paul's artist friend Axel Gallén-Kallela created the cover for one of his novels, Ein gefallener profet (A fallen prophet) in 1895.
At the Helsinki opening of the historic play Kung Kristian II in 1898, Paul received standing ovations and was crowned with a laurel wreath that he kept for the rest of his life.
When Strindberg relocated to Berlin in 1892 after his divorce from Siri von Essen, Paul was the one who introduced him to everyone worth knowing and to the hangout Zum schwarzen Ferkel, where the artist community gathered.
Jag har ställt pengar på Rügen, men om det kommer några vet fan!
Har Ni några, så telegrafera över dem att jag får rymma åtminstone.
Jag borde egentligen skjuta mig, men det skulle ha varit gjort för länge sedan.
He suffered from severe paranoia and, according to some sources, wrongly accused Paul of having based unsympathetic characters on him in two of his books.
As opposed to his on and off relationship with Strindberg, Paul remained a lifelong friend of Sibelius and cooperated with him on several occasions.
Both Kung Kristian II and another play, Karin Månsdotter, were performed at the Stockholm Royal Opera in 1898.
Literature critics considered Paul's psychological portrayals of Voltaire in Ormen i paradiset and Napoleon in S:t Helena among his literary highlights.
[11] In 1919 he wrote a movie script for Die Tänzerin Barberina starring Strindberg's third wife Harriet Bosse.
In 1931, when Germany faced mass unemployment, being Swedish citizens enabled two of the younger children to move to Sweden and find employment.
