Eduard Maaser

1916–1990 · Estonian artist (1916-1990)
Allee galerii; Artner; E-Kunstisalong; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Haus Galerii; Okupatsioonide ja vabaduse muuseum Vabamu (Kistler-Ritso Eesti SA)

trained at Pallas · trained at Tartu Art School

Herman Aunapuu was born on 12 March 1915 in Kokand, Turkestan, Central Asia, where his father was a stationmaster. The family moved to Tartu in 1921. In 1933 Aunapuu entered the Pallas Higher Art School, where he received a first-class education under Jaan Vahtra, Voldemar Mellik and Villem Ormisson. His main supervisor, however, was Ado Vabbe, under whom he also continued his studies at the Tartu State Art Institute from autumn 1944. In March 1945 Aunapuu was arrested and, by decision of a special tribunal, sentenced from 8 September to eight years in a corrective labour camp for betraying the homeland. He remained in labour camps in the Komi ASSR and Arkhangelsk Oblast until 1953. Herman Aunapuu first exhibited in 1940 at an exhibition organised by the Pallas Art Society, where donations and deposits were displayed — ranging from Konrad Mägi to Elmar Kits — which were meant to become the founding stock of the Tartu Art Museum then being established. Aunapuu was at that time still a student, yet he was already being compared to Endel Kõks and Elmar Kits. After the labour camps Aunapuu rarely exhibited; in fact he was pushed aside from exhibitions. He was never admitted to the Artists' Union. From 1971 onward the artist lived in seclusion near Tartu, in Peedu. Herman Aunapuu died on 29 December 1998 in Tartu and is buried at Raadi Maarja Cemetery. (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)

24 auction lots · 15 sold · 2006–2025 · €223 – €2,200 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation

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4 works at Artner, E-Kunstisalong, Haus Galerii, €400–€1,600. Prices as the galleries state them.

Noormehe portree
€400 · Artner ↗Tallinna vaade
€585 · E-Kunstisalong ↗Emajõgi Tartus
€920 · E-Kunstisalong ↗Tartu vaade I
€1,600 · Haus Galerii ↗

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Teachers, pupils, circle

Teachers: Villem Ormisson · Voldemar Mellik · Ado Vabbe

Circle: Pallas

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Noormehe portree
1963 · ArtnerEmajõgi Tartus
1946 · E-KunstisalongTartu vaade I
1947 · Haus GaleriiTallinna vaade
1940 · E-Kunstisalong

4 works with a picture; the first 4 here, all in the catalogue. Pictures for public-domain works, live gallery listings and the works galleries and artists show on their own pages, from those servers.

Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Nigul Espe · Hilda Kamdron · Juhan Nõmmik · Ilmar Linnat · Johannes Saal · Erich Pehap

Also trained at Tartu Art School: Valdur Ohakas · Johannes Uiga · Agu Peerna · Varmo Pirk · Enno Ootsing

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

Contemporaries in Tartu Kunstimuuseum: Fjodor Konstantinov · Nikolai Nikiforov · Lipa Gerš-Leibovitš Roiter · Leonid Soifertis · Heido Laarne

By decade: 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
By medium: Watercolour · Drawing · Painting · Other · Bookplate · Print
Where the works are: Tartu Art Museum · Art Museum of Estonia · University of Tartu Art Museum · Tartu City Museum · Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

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