Helge Lindberg

From Musica Fennica (1965) (Timo Makinin and Seppo Nummi, authors): Helge Igor Lindberg, [a] baritone, spent a significant part of his life in Vienna.

His fame as a singer was based on a technique that had been developed to perfection and on his minutely-studied performing style.He received a medal from the King of Sweden for his singing.

His known sculptures include a 12-inch wooden statue of himself as a satyr (1927); a sitting Buddha; a crucified Christ; and a black stone bust of his second wife (lost in Buenos Aires after her death).

[1] He died of pneumonia in 1928 and his ashes are interred on a small island off the southern coast of Finland (San Scher), which he had bought as a summer retreat.

A painting was made of him by the Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten in 1916: A Waldemar Eide photo can be found here: MP3 link of "Der Wanderer" (other recordings sung by Lindberg are also on this site) Exhibition by the Finnland-Institute in Germany