Kadarpiku
Coordinates: 58 ° 57 ' N , 23 ° 43' E
Kadarpiku is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Lääne-Nigula in Lääne County in Estonia . Until 2013 it belonged to the now dissolved rural community Taebla .
Population and location
The place has 37 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). Its area is 5.3 square kilometers. Kadarpiku is twelve kilometers from the county capital Haapsalu .
Ants Laikmaa
A museum has been housed in the former home of the artist Ants Laikmaa (1866–1942) since the 1960s .
The museum is dedicated to Ants Laikmaa's life and extensive artistic work. Laikmaa, who had studied in Düsseldorf , was one of the first and most respected Estonian artists of his time with his landscape paintings and portraits. With him began the realistic painting and the tradition of artist exhibitions in Estonia. In addition, ethnographic objects that Laikmaa collected with passion are exhibited in the museum .
Laikmaa lived in the house with its national romantic architecture for the last ten years . However, he had already started building the house in the 1920s. The high reed roof is characteristic. His studio is on the first floor.
Behind the house is the small summer house built in 1923 with a high thatched roof , which Laikmaa jokingly called "My Tusculum ".
A little further away from the house is Laikmaa's grave under tall spruce trees . Laikmaa designed the grave itself. A granite monument by the Estonian sculptor Juhan Raudsepp from 1956 commemorates him.
In the spacious, seven-hectare garden, nine oaks are planted, each dedicated to famous artist friends of Laikmaas or their relatives. Marie Under , Friedebert Tuglas and Gustav Suits were often guests with him in the summer months.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Description (Estonian)
- Ants Laikmaa Museum (Estonian and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 76f.