Eduard Wiiralt
Eduard Wiiralt (
March 20 1898 ,Russia –January 8 1954 ,Paris ) was an Estonian artist.Life
Eduard Wiiralt was born near
St. Petersburg as the son of Estonian parents who worked on aRussia n country estate. In the year 1909 the family moved toEstonia and lived duringWorld War I inTallinn where the young artist was educated in the Tallinn Arts and Crafts school.After finishing school in 1919 he continued his studies in the Pallas art school in
Tartu underAnton Starkopf . From the year 1916 originate his firstwoodcut s andlinocut s and from 1917 first etchings. In 1922–1923 Wiiralt visited theDresden Academy of Art,Germany , under professorSelmar Werner . In autumn 1923 Wiiralt returned to Tartu. In this period he was mostly concerned withbook illustration.During the period 1925–1939 he lived in
Paris . After that he spent some years in Estonia but from 1946 he moved permanently toFrance . He died there aged 55 and was buried in thePère Lachaise Cemetery .In Paris he created his best-known works "Hell" (1930–1932), "Cabaret" (1931), "Preacher" (1932), "Negro heads" (1933), "Claude" (1936).
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* [http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/18919/ Estonia’s original surrealist]
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