OUR HISTORY
Estonia is a small nation within the global community. With a population of only 1.4 million, it has existed for over 9000 years on the Baltic Sea just south of Finland.
Estonia is a small nation within the global community. With a population of only 1.4 million, it has existed for over 9000 years on the Baltic Sea just south of Finland.
This website is dedicated to all of the 80,000 (about 10% of the population) emigrés who had to leave their homeland with their families between 1940-1944.
This website has been developed to showcase and promote the talented works of the Estonian diaspora artists in the Toronto area. There are also works from Estonian artists from the USA and Estonia.
This website is dedicated to all of the 80,000 (about 10% of the population) emigrés who had to leave their homeland of Estonia with their families between 1940-1944.
With over 5000 works of art. It has become difficult to find a suitable home for these rich historic artworks. The majority of the works on display and for sale on this website are from Mai Vomm Järve’s collection (predominantly works from the Society of Estonian Artists in Toronto-EKKT members).
Sculptor Tauno Kangro was born on May 25th 1966 in Tallinn. Kangro began to study art already in his school days, at Kalju Reitel’s Sculpture Studio.
Exhibited in 1972 at the First Estonian World Festival Art Exhibition at Tartu College and in 1975 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario where his work is on permanent collection.
The Russian invasion of Estonia forced her family to flee to Germany. After the war Arville Puström studied at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf (1946-1949).
Abel Lee was born in 1918, in Jõhvi, Estonia. He began developing his talent at the Tallinn Art Academy. After living in Sweden and Finland, he immigrated to Canada in 1951.
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