Eduard Ole

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Eduard Ole (born May 20, 1898 in Karula , † November 24, 1995 in Stockholm ) was an Estonian painter who lived in Sweden from 1944 and had Swedish citizenship since 1951. Ole was known for his Cubist works and portraits .

Life

Eduard Ole was born on May 20, 1898 in Karula. He was the seventh child in a farming family. He came into contact with modern art at an early age , which he found in the library of an art school and in museums in Moscow and Saint Petersburg . Between 1914 and 1918 Ole studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and took up the influence of German Expressionism . In 1918, when the country became independent, Ole returned to Estonia, where he worked as a set designer, drawing teacher and art critic. From 1923 he emerged as an artist. That year, together with Friedrich Hist and Felix Randel, he founded an artist group in Tartu that organized exhibitions of cubist art. Ole worked in a cubist way, but always kept figurative elements. This phase of work ended in 1926 and Ole turned to ink painting.

In 1925 Ole sent works to the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris . In 1927 he went on a study trip to the French capital, which inspired him to paint paintings with motifs of the city. As a result of this trip, he completely gave up the cubist influences in his work and turned to large figurative compositions. In the early 1930s, Ole began a series of portraits of Estonian personalities. Those portrayed included Juhan Simm , Hendrik Visnapuu , Friedebert Tuglas and August Gailit . In 1937 Ole went on a second study trip to Paris. He then took up landscape painting, which he continued into the 1940s. In 1939 he married the philologist Helmi Metsvaht .

Due to the German occupation of Estonia during the Second World War , Ole only fled to Finland in 1943 , where he portrayed Lauri Kettunen , among others . In the following year he fled from there to neutral Sweden. In 1951 he became a Swedish citizen. His wife stayed behind in Estonia. It was not until 1990 that Ole was able to visit Estonia again.

In Sweden, Ole worked for the Nordic Museum and made illustrations of Swedish monuments. After settling down, he toured Lapland and northern Norway . He turned to the Nordic landscape as a motif and to a certain extent adapted post-impressionist style elements as well as Nordic expressionism, such as with Edvard Munch . At the end of the 1960s, Ole turned again to Cubist elements in his art. This work phase lasted until his death. Ole died on November 24, 1995 in Stockholm and was buried in Tallinn .

literature

  • Arvo Mägi: Eduard Ole: The Life and Work of the Artist , Stockholm 1978, ISBN 91-7260-197-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arvo Mägi: Eduard Ole: The Life and Work of the Artist , Stockholm 1978, ISBN 91-7260-197-3 , p. 32.
  2. ^ Arvo Mägi: Eduard Ole: The Life and Work of the Artist , Stockholm 1978, p. 8.
  3. ^ Arvo Mägi: Eduard Ole: The Life and Work of the Artist , Stockholm 1978, p. 20.
  4. ^ Arvo Mägi: Eduard Ole: The Life and Work of the Artist , Stockholm 1978, p. 33.
  5. ↑ Arvo Mägi: Eduard Ole: The Life and Work of the Artist , Stockholm 1978, pp. 21-24.
personal data
SURNAME Ole, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian-Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Karula
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1995
Place of death Stockholm