Otto crusts

Otto crusts

Otto crusts (actually Krustein , pseudonym Raudnõges , * June 6 ^{. Jul} / 18th June  1888 ^greg. In Muraste ; † 23. February 1937 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian cartoonist .

Life

Krusten went to school in Ranna and Tallinn and studied from 1904 to 1907 in Ants Laikmaa's studio school . In the years before the First World War , he attended lectures by the Society for the Promotion of the Arts in Saint Petersburg as a guest auditor . In 1917 he was originally involved in the formation of the Siuru group, but later stayed away from the meetings, so that it became a purely literary group.

From 1919 Krusten worked temporarily in the Estonian Ministry of Education, from 1922 to 1927 he was a member of the editorial team of the Postimees newspaper in Tartu . From 1927 until his death he worked for Päevaleht (1905–1940) in Tallinn . The writers Pedro Krusten and Erni Krusten were his younger brothers.

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Krusten based himself on the satirical magazine Simplicissimus , published in Munich , and took the Olaf Gulbransson, who published there, as a model. He developed his own laconic style and created numerous portraits of well-known figures of cultural life in Estonia, comparable to Karl August Hindrey . This made him, alongside Gori , Estonia's "most outstanding and original caricaturist."

Selected cartoons

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  The Estonian colleague Gori

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  The Estonian writer August Kitzberg

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  The Estonian writer Karl August Hindrey

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  The Estonian writer Hugo Raudsepp (pseudonym Milli Mallikas)

literature

• Edmund Valtman: Eesti karikatuur yes caricaturist, in: Mana 44, 1977, pp. 57-64.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : Eesti kirjanduse 100 aastat. Tallinn: Riigikantselei ja AS Postimees Grupp, Post Factum 2019. pp. 11–12.
2. ↑ Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 1996, p. 212.
3. ↑ Edmund Valtman: Eesti karikatuur ja cartoonistid, in: Mana 44, 1977, p. 60.