August Vomm

1906–1976 · Estonian sculptor (1906-1976)
Eesti Ajaloomuuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Eesti Teatri- ja Muusikamuuseum; Tartu Kunstimuuseum; Vernissage; Virumaa Muuseumid

trained at Pallas

Before World War II, August Vomm's oeuvre consisted mainly of portrait busts and about ten labour-intensive gravestones. He portrayed Ruts Bauman, Ants Lauter, Hugo Laur, Gustav Ernesaks, Romulus Tiitus, Ferdi Sannamees and others. As one of the few artists who spent the war years in his homeland, August Vomm adapted to the new demands already in the first post-war years. In 1945 he joined a brigade of sculptors, creating reliefs symbolising the Soviet republics for the Estonia theatre. In 1947 a monument to those fallen in the Great Patriotic War was completed in Viljandi, in 1952 the Lenin monument in Tartu, again created using the brigade method, was unveiled, as well as the memorial to Nikolai Burdenko on Tartu's Toome Hill, together with Lagle Israel. His monuments to the revolutionary figures Johannes Vares-Barbarus and Hans Pöögelmann in Tallinn have by now been relocated. For the Lenin jubilee exhibition in 1970, Vomm created a giant-sized oak portrait bust of V. I. Lenin, for which, together with Elmar Kits and Avo Keerend, he received the State Prize and the honorary title of Meritorious Artist of the Estonian SSR, as well as all-Union recognition in the press. A special place in his oeuvre was also held by sculpture depicting children and animals. (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)

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Teachers, pupils, circle

Circle: Pallas

Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Enn Roos · Martin Saks · Lydia Laas · Herman Halliste · Aleksander Kaasik · Johannes Hirv

Also trained at Pallas: Richard Sagrits · Andrus Johani · Romulus Tiitus · Karin Luts · Ernst Hallop

Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Karl (sen.) Burman · Lev Samoilov · Jaan Siirak · Juhan Hennoste · Sarra Petrovna Bogatkina

By decade: 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
By medium: Sculpture · Painting
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Estonian Theatre and Music Museum · Estonian History Museum · Tartu Art Museum · Virumaa Museums

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