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Ilmar Ojalo (1910 – 1989). Portrait of the artist Herman Talvik. (1940)
€850
Oil, thick cardboard
50.2 x 40 cm
Bottom right – Ojalo 40
On the turn, above – 1940. Tall. Mere pst. Ilmar Ojalo “Artist Herman Talvik, standing in the studio – by the window” Oil, 50 x 40 Ojalo
Ilmar Ojalo (1910–1989) was an Estonian painter and restorer. In the 1930s, Ojalo studied at the Art School of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki. In 1939, he first exhibited at an art exhibition in Finland and in March 1940 in Estonia. Later, he worked as a restorer at the Tartu Art Museum. In 1951, he was arrested for preserving caricatures and anti-Soviet literature that had appeared in newspapers during the German occupation. He served his sentence first in the Vasalemma prison camp, and later in the Perm region. After his release in 1955, Ilmar Ojalo was appointed as an artist-restorer at the Scientific Restoration Workshop in Tallinn. He restored several masterpieces, including The Wedding of Cana (1597) and the Mary’s Winged Altar of the Tallinn Blackheads.
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Description
Oil, thick cardboard
50.2 x 40 cm
Bottom right – Ojalo 40
On the turn, above – 1940. Tall. Mere pst. Ilmar Ojalo “Artist Herman Talvik, standing in the studio – by the window” Oil, 50 x 40 Ojalo
Ilmar Ojalo (1910–1989) was an Estonian painter and restorer. In the 1930s, Ojalo studied at the Art School of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki. In 1939, he first exhibited at an art exhibition in Finland and in March 1940 in Estonia. Later, he worked as a restorer at the Tartu Art Museum. In 1951, he was arrested for preserving caricatures and anti-Soviet literature that had appeared in newspapers during the German occupation. He served his sentence first in the Vasalemma prison camp, and later in the Perm region. After his release in 1955, Ilmar Ojalo was appointed as an artist-restorer at the Scientific Restoration Workshop in Tallinn. He restored several masterpieces, including The Wedding of Cana (1597) and the Mary’s Winged Altar of the Tallinn Blackheads.
