Arno Vihalemm

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Arno Vihalemm (* May 11. . Jul / 24. May  1911 greg. In Pärnu , † 21st July 1990 in Vaxjo , Sweden ) was an Estonian poet and graphic artist .

Life

Arno Vihalemm was called Arnold Koch until his name was estonized in 1936 . He was born the son of a customs officer. In 1931 he graduated from the boys' grammar school in Pärnu.

Vihalemm studied from 1935 to 1940 and 1943 at the Pallas Art School in Tartu, Livonia . In Pärnu he had his own studio before the start of the Second World War . In 1944 Vihalemm fled the Soviet occupation of Estonia to Sweden . He had to leave his wife and two sons behind in Estonia.

From 1948 to 1952 Vihalemm worked as an artist in a ceramic factory in Ystad . He then settled in southern Sweden as a freelance graphic artist, painter and poet.

Arno Vihalemm is known for his six collections of poetry in Estonian , which were published in exile in Sweden and often contained (self-) ironic and grotesque verses of naive lightness, as well as for his graphic works, paintings and book illustrations.

Arno Vihalemm is the father of the Estonian philosopher Rein Vihalemm (* 1938) and the journalist Peeter Vihalemm (* 1944).

Poetry collections

  • Kaja kivi südamdes (1954)
  • Marionetid (with linocuts by the poet, 1958)
  • Consolationes (1961)
  • Tsoo-loogia ehk ingel lindudega (1966)
  • Ühe keelega kannel (1979)
  • Viis on Viis (1986)

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 576, 616
  • Toomas Liiv: "Arno Vihalemm luuletajana" In: Looming 1986, No. 5, pp. 684-689

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.parnupostimees.ee/031007/kultuur/10078320.php  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.parnupostimees.ee  
  2. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 603
personal data
SURNAME Vihalemm, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian poet and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnu
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1990
Place of death Vaxjo , Sweden