Arseni Mölder

1919–2009 · Estonian artist (1919-2009)
E-Kunstisalong; Eesti Ajaloomuuseum; Eesti Kunstiakadeemia muuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Eesti Teatri- ja Muusikamuuseum; Okupatsioonide ja vabaduse muuseum Vabamu (Kistler-Ritso Eesti SA)

trained at Estonian Academy of Arts

His work is divided into several different periods. The sculptures created in the 1950s belong to the best of the realistic style of the time (a joint work with his wife Signe Mölder remains today's relocated V.I. Lenin monument in Jõhvi (together with Enn Roos). Arseni Mölder's most outstanding monumental work remains the monument to N. Pirogov executed in a classicist order in Tartu (1952, together with Juhan Raudsepp), the bronze relief "Battle of Assamalla" of the F.R. Kreutzwald memorial, 1957, several memorial plaques executed in precious materials, and more. The best of his free-standing sculptures ("The Moulder" (1950, bronze 1964), "Relay Runners" (bronze, 1956)). In the 1960s he joined the wave of modernism that swept Estonian sculpture, several more chamber-scale works in chamotte, epoxy resin, wood and metal attract attention either with beautiful pure decorative form culture or are deliberately humorous ("The Queue" (1969, EKM), "At the Stadium" (1969), "Hen Family" (1978), etc.). In Arseni Mölder's oeuvre his naive-humorous jewellery pieces play an important role. A small portion of the latter has found a place in the Museum of Applied Art and Design. (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)

1 auction lots · 1 sold · 2011 · €280 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation

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Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Georgi Markelov · Linda Rosin · Aulin Rimm · Albert Eskel · Signe Mölder · Lembit Tolli

Also trained at Estonian Academy of Arts: Eduard Wiiralt · Evald Okas · Andrus Johani · Johann Naha · Leonhard Lapin

Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Vive Tolli · Nikolai Kormašov · Henno Arrak · Viktor Karrus · Heldur Laretei

By decade: 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
By medium: Sculpture · Drawing
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Tartu Art Museum · Estonian Academy of Arts Museum · Under and Tuglas Literature Centre · Estonian Theatre and Music Museum · Estonian History Museum · Tartu City Museum · Tallinn City Museum · Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

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