1942– · Estonian sculptor (born 1942)
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia muuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Harjumaa Muuseum; Tartu Kunstimuuseum; Uue Kunsti Muuseum
Ellen Kolk (1942) belongs to the circle of women artists who changed the overall picture of Estonian art exhibitions at the beginning of the 1970s. As with several of her contemporary young women sculptors in the early 1970s, Ellen Kolk's arrival at art exhibitions can also be linked to the revaluation of aestheticism in sculpture. It was she who brought bronze back into exhibition halls as a sculptural material, considerably before the beginning of the regular bronze casting of ARS Monumentaal. The "Venus" completed in 1970 is one of the first full figures in the new aestheticist manner. Kolk has been interested both in motifs derived from ancient mythology and in classicistically ennobled imagery and allegorical choice of themes. Elements of nature appear as attributes in several figural compositions. Sensitively modelled sculptures with masterly surface treatment connected with the aesthetics of the new generation of the early 1970s. The works are figural, distinguished by precise modelling, clear classical formal language and masterly surface treatment. Most of the works are executed in bronze, but she has also created works in marble and dolomite. Chamber-like figures and portraits have over the years found their way into public space (e.g. the green area with a pool in front of the North Estonia Medical Centre in Mustamäe, Kuressaare Hospital, Maardu Manor, Palmse Manor, the Commandant's Garden on Toompea in Tallinn, SEB Bank in Tallinn, the Russian Embassy in Luxembourg). Kolk graduated from Tartu Art School in 1962 and from the State Art Institute of the ESSR in the speciality of sculpture in 1967. She has been awarded the Kristjan Raud Prize (1981). (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)
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Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Matti Varik · Ülo Õun · Irina Rätsep · Mare Mikof · Aime Kuulbusch · Aime Jürjo
Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Eugen Kask · Aarne Mesikäpp · Tõnu Virve · Juri Dubov · Irene Virve
By decade: 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 2000s
By medium: Sculpture · Drawing
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Tartu Art Museum · Estonian Academy of Arts Museum · Museum of New Art · Harju County Museum
| Year | Title | Technique | Dimensions | Held by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Alice Tisler | kõrgus: 58.0 cm; kõrgus: 367.0 cm | Harjumaa Muuseum | |
| 1969 | Lembit | pronksivalu | kõrgus: 33.0 cm; sügavus: 27.0 cm; laius: 24.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1970 | Veenus | pronksivalu | kõrgus: 135.0 cm; sügavus: 26.0 cm; laius: 37.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1971 | Atleet | kipsivalu | kõrgus: 145.0 cm; sügavus: 48.0 cm; laius: 59.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1971 | Supleja | kõrgus: 77.0 cm; sügavus: 39.0 cm; laius: 39.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum | |
| 1973 | Tiiu Randviir | casting | kõrgus: 51.0 cm; sügavus: 24.5 cm; laius: 43.5 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1974 | Viljakus | nikerdamine | kõrgus: 122.5 cm; sügavus: 37.5 cm; laius: 41.5 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1976 | Skulptor Aime Kuulbuschi portree | kõrgus: 30.0 cm; sügavus: 23.0 cm; laius: 17.0 cm | Tartu Kunstimuuseum | |
| 1977 | Autoportree | casting | kõrgus: 55.0 cm; sügavus: 24.0 cm; laius: 34.5 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1977 | Sepp | kõrgus: 139.0 cm; sügavus: 56.0 cm; laius: 53.0 cm | Tartu Kunstimuuseum | |
| 1978 | Merekarbi kuulaja | kõrgus: 78.0 cm; sügavus: 23.0 cm; laius: 47.0 cm | Tartu Kunstimuuseum | |
| 1979 | Küllli Tammiku portree | casting | kõrgus: 45.0 cm; sügavus: 18.0 cm; laius: 37.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1980 | Merefauna | casting | kõrgus: 173.0 cm; sügavus: 55.0 cm; laius: 78.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1980 | Merefloora.(kordus) | kõrgus: 175.0 cm; sügavus: 65.0 cm; laius: 70.0 cm | Tartu Kunstimuuseum | |
| 1981 | Mirjam Peili portree | casting | kõrgus: 50.0 cm; sügavus: 32.0 cm; laius: 35.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1983 | Hermes ja Aurelius | casting | kõrgus: 62.0 cm; sügavus: 20.0 cm; laius: 47.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1984 | Ema Lapsega | kõrgus: 120.0 cm; sügavus: 52.0 cm; laius: 48.0 cm | Tartu Kunstimuuseum | |
| 1988 | Supleja | casting | kõrgus: 140.0 cm; sügavus: 64.0 cm; laius: 78.0 cm | Eesti Kunstimuuseum |
| 1989 | Vastu tuult | kõrgus: 27.0 cm; sügavus: 21.0 cm; laius: 17.0 cm | Tartu Kunstimuuseum | |
| 2006 | Merevahust sündinu | Uue Kunsti Muuseum | ||
| — | Sääred ja labajalad | Eesti Kunstiakadeemia muuseum |
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