Nikolai Triik

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Nikolai Triik: Self-Portrait (1929)

Nikolai Voldemar Triik (born August 7, 1884 in Tallinn ; † August 12, 1940 there ) was an Estonian painter , graphic artist and art teacher .

Early years

Nikolai Triik came from a middle-class family. He graduated from Tallinn High School in 1901. In the same year he entered the art school founded by Baron Alexander von Stieglitz in Saint Petersburg . In 1905 he was expelled from school for participating in a student strike during the Russian Revolution . He continued his studies at the Tallinn Studio School of Ants Laikmaa .

Vana aed (1917)

to travel

In the spring of 1906, Triik went to Finland , spent the summer of the same year with Konrad Mägi and Alexander Tassa in Åland and the autumn at the Art Association's school in Helsinki . In the same year he married the rich daughter of a manufacturer, Valentina Grekowa. At the end of 1906, Triik moved with his wife to Paris , where he studied art at the Académie Colarossi , the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts until 1908 . He spent the summers of 1907 and 1908 in Norway .

In 1908 Triik moved back to Saint Petersburg , where he attended courses with Nicholas Roerich . Until 1910 he lived alternately in the Russian capital and in Tartu , where he actively participated in the artistic life. In 1910/11 Triik headed the art pages of Noor-Eesti magazine . Visits took him to Copenhagen and Berlin . In 1913 he finally moved to Estonia.

Artist in Estonia

There Triik initially worked as an art teacher in Tallinn. From 1916 he was a member of the council of the Estonian Art Association ( Eesti Kunstiselts ) and in 1919/20 he was head of the visual arts division in the Estonian Ministry of Education. In 1919 he organized a survey of Estonian art in which he himself took part. From 1920 Triik was a member of the influential Pallas artists' association . In 1921 Triik moved to Tartu and worked at the Pallas Art School . Estonian modernism found one of its main representatives in Nikolai Triik .

From 1922 to 1926 Triik taught and worked in his studio in Tartu and was a lecturer in graphics . From 1926 to 1928 he was a freelance artist before returning to his previous work in 1928. Nikolai Triik became famous for his suggestive-psychological portraits . In 1933 he was the first Estonian ever to be awarded the title of art professor. In February 1940 he withdrew to Tallinn - already marked by illness - where he died that same year.

Works (selection)

Aleksander Tassa , 1905

Portraits

painting

Soome maastik (1914)
  • Mererand (1905)
  • Lennuk (1910)
  • Mannid (1931)
  • Talvine Tartu Emajõega (1935)
  • Sõttaminek (1909)
  • Tõusva nooruse ees (1909)
  • Märter (1913)
  • Disaster (1917)

Watercolors

Võitlus hüdraga
  • Deemon (1911-1912)
  • Deemon yes Tamara (1911-1912)
  • Surm ja väsinu (1911–1912)
  • Surma lõikus (1911–1912)
  • Surma viis I (1911-1912)
  • Tamara tants I (1911-1912)
  • Tamara tants II (1911-1912)

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Triik, Nikolai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Triik, Nikolai Voldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian painter, graphic artist and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1940
Place of death Tallinn