Ferdi Sannamees

1895–1963 · Estonian sculptor (1895-1963)
Allee galerii; E-Kunstisalong; Eesti Ajaloomuuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Eesti Teatri- ja Muusikamuuseum; Haus Galerii

trained at Pallas

In 1915-1916 he worked in Rakvere at Argus photo studio as a retoucher for the day photographer, in 1917 he served in the tsarist army in Petrograd. In 1918-1920 he worked, mobilised into the Estonian defence forces, at the Tartu prisoner-of-war camp. In 1922 he was a member of the art society Pallas and from 1925 of EKKKÜ. In 1923-1925 he worked at Pallas as a teacher of plaster casting, in 1925-1927 as head of the workshop of the State School of Applied Art. In 1928-1941 he was a freelance artist in Tallinn. In 1939 he was one of the founders of the Estonian Sculptors' Professional Union. During World War II he was evacuated to the rear of the Soviet Union to Chuvashia, where he worked at the state theatre. In 1942 the sculptors who had been in the rear (Garibaldi Pommer, Enn Roos, Aleksander Kaasik) were gathered in Moscow, where a brigade of sculptors was formed with Ferdi Sannamees at its head. The artists were tasked with organising an art exhibition dedicated to the 600th anniversary of the St. George's Night Uprising in Moscow in 1943. After returning to Estonia, Sannamees worked during the restoration and reconstruction period of the Tallinn Institute of Applied Art in 1944–1945 as its director and led the newly founded Estonian Artists' Union. In 1945–1950 he worked as dean and professor of the sculpture chair of ERKI (EKA). (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)

10 auction lots · 5 sold · 2011–2024 · €2,500 – €37,500 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation

Nothing for sale now. Follow new works for sale (RSS)

Browse 268 works in the catalogue →

Teachers, pupils, circle

Circle: Pallas

Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Juhan Raudsepp · Jaan Koort · Eduard Wiiralt · Andrus Johani · Linda Sõber · Hilda Orgusaar

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

Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Hando Mugasto · Paul Liivak · Paul Sepp · Nikolai Bergholz · Aare Kampe

By decade: 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
By medium: Sculpture · Print · Drawing · Painting · Other
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Tartu Art Museum · Estonian History Museum · Estonian Theatre and Music Museum · Tallinn City Museum · Tartu City Museum · Under and Tuglas Literature Centre

← Ferd. Wassermann · All artists A–Z · Ferdinand Adam Ottomar Trühl →

Museum records from MuIS and the EKM Digital Collection; gallery stock from the galleries' own catalogues; auction results as Haus Galerii, Vernissage, Allee galerii, Vaal galerii, E-Kunstisalong, Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid and Kunstikoda published them, and the lots Osta Noort Kunsti offered (it publishes no results). Full catalogue · Corrections, removals, questions: info@museaal.ee · Privacy