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Valdur Ohakas (1925 – 1998). Red Figures on the Seashore (1978)
€1100
Oil on canvas
25.5 x 39 cm
Bottom right – VOhakas 78
Valdur Ohakas studied at Tallinn 21st Primary School, Tallinn II Progymnasium, Tallinn Commercial School and Tallinn Evening Technical School. In 1942–1943 he studied at the Tallinn School of Fine and Applied Arts under Eerik Haamer and Johannes Greenberg. In 1943–1944 he was mobilized in the German army. In 1944–1948 he studied at the Tartu State Art Institute under Johannes Võerahansu and Elmar Kitse, but did not finish school, as in 1949 he was arrested together with a group of art students and sent to the Vorkuta prison camp in the Karaganda region of the Kazakh SSR. He was released from there in 1956.
He has been exhibiting since 1946, and has been a member of the Estonian Artists’ Union since 1959.
Valdur Ohakas participated in the 1960s Estonian art renewal process and interacted closely with Ülo Sooster and many artists from Tartu and Tallinn. The peak of the artist’s work was the 1960s–1970s, when romantic landscape visions were central to his diverse work.
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Oil on canvas
25.5 x 39 cm
Bottom right – VOhakas 78
Valdur Ohakas studied at Tallinn 21st Primary School, Tallinn II Progymnasium, Tallinn Commercial School and Tallinn Evening Technical School. In 1942–1943 he studied at the Tallinn School of Fine and Applied Arts under Eerik Haamer and Johannes Greenberg. In 1943–1944 he was mobilized in the German army. In 1944–1948 he studied at the Tartu State Art Institute under Johannes Võerahansu and Elmar Kitse, but did not finish school, as in 1949 he was arrested together with a group of art students and sent to the Vorkuta prison camp in the Karaganda region of the Kazakh SSR. He was released from there in 1956.
He has been exhibiting since 1946, and has been a member of the Estonian Artists’ Union since 1959.
Valdur Ohakas participated in the 1960s Estonian art renewal process and interacted closely with Ülo Sooster and many artists from Tartu and Tallinn. The peak of the artist’s work was the 1960s–1970s, when romantic landscape visions were central to his diverse work.
