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CV Mari Aakre
Virve Aben
Education 1964–1969 Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), fashion design 1959–1962 Tallinn Technical School of Light Industry, clothes design and modelling
Education 1948–1954 Estonian Academy of Arts, textile
Born in 1940 in Narva
Work 1973–2003 EKA, lecturer of fashion design, since 1992 assistant professor 1969–1973 Tallinn Fashion House, artist 1962–1964 Sewing Factory Baltika, artist Selected Group Exhibitions 1993 International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, Mexico 1987 Exhibition of Estonian Art, Moscow 1981, 1983–1986, 1990, 1991 Estonian Exhibitions of Miniature Textiles, Estonia, Finland, Japan, Russia 1987 Exhibition of Estonian Fashion Designers, Riga 1983, 1985–1987 Exhibitions of Fasion Design, Tallinn Selected Personal Exhibitions 1985 Gallery Draakon, Tallinn Membership 1986 Estonian Artists Association (EAA) 1993 Estonian Fasion Artists Association 1993 Estonian Textile Artists Association (ETAA) Publications In 1970s in Siluett, magazine of Tallinn Fashion House Edition Käsitöö (Handicraft Album) (No 8-10) edited by the publishing house Kunst in 1972–1975
Born in 1930 in Tallinn
Adamson-Eric
(Erich Karl Hugo Adamson) Born on 18.07.1902 in Tartu, died on 2.12.1968 in Tallinn
Work 1988–1997 instructor of a weaving club, Keila 1981–1985 Estonian Information Institute, engineer, sector of industrial design 1965–1980 Tallinn Fashion House, artist 1954–1965 Textile Factory Punane Koit, artist and designer of printed fabrics
Education 1924–1927 Private Academy of F. Colarossi, P. Ransoni, Montparnasse’i, André Lhote’i and Private Academy of V. Šuhhajev, Paris 1923–1924 Charlottenburg Art Industrial School, Berlin 1921–1923 Art School of Art Society Pallas 1920–1923 Tartu University, faculty of law, non-collegiate
Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 Exhibition of Patchworks, Nõmme Social Centre 2001 Exhibition of Patchworks, Tallinn Song Festival Choir Stand 1994 Estonian Patchwork Quilt, Estonian National Library 1991, 1993 exhibitions of miniature textiles 1956–1964 exhibitions of industrial art; Tallinn, Moscow
Work 1953–1968 State Art Institute of Estonia, chair of leatherwork, lecturer 1951–1953 Footwear Factory Kommunaar, worker 1945–1949 Tallinn State Applied Art Institute, director; since 1946 professor 1932–1941 freelance painter and applied artist Since 1920s made textile designs, fostered also metal and leatherwork
Selected Personal Exhibitions 2005 Patchwork Quilts and Tapestry Carpets, Nõmme Social Centre
Selected Group Exhibitions 1958 exhibited his paintings 1947 Art Exhibition of the USSR, Moscow (thematic tapestry cardboard about the 12th national song festival, which later was carried out) 1942–1944 exhibitions with the group of artists of Jaroslavl, Russia 1940 7th Exhibition of Applied Artists Association (AAA), Tallinn Art Hall 1939 Exhibition of Paintings, Tallinn Art Hall (with Aleksander Bergman-Vardi, Jaan Grünberg, Kaarel Liimand, Karl Pärsimägi and Kristjan Teder) 1939 Exhibition of Estonian Art; Rome, Budapest, Antwerpen (paintings) 1938 Exhibition of Handicraft, Berlin (leatherwork) 1937 Paris World Exhibition (tapestry, porcelain, ceramics)
Membership 1960 EAA 1993 ETAA
1935 Exhibition of Estonian Art, Moscow 1930 Exhibition of Estonian Art, Berlin, Cologne, Copenhagen 1930 Art College Pallas, Tartu (with K. Teder) 1930 First Exhibition of Estonian Applied Artists of the Arts and Crafts Workshops Dekoor (textile) 1929 Exhibition of Estonian Art, Helsinki, Lübeck, Paris (paintings) 1928 Group Exhibitions of Estonian Artists in Paris, Blomqvist Art Gallery, Oslo; Tallinn (with K. Teder and E. Wiiralt); Pärnu (with K. Teder, E. Wiiralt, A. Starkopf) (paintings, tapestry and cushions) 1927–1938 Salon of Paris Independents, Autumn Salon and Salon de Tuileries (paintings) 1926 Exhibition of Estonian Artists Association, Tallinn 1925 Novembergruppe, Berlin (paintings) 1925 Overview Exhibition of Estonian Art, Tallinn (paintings) Selected Personal Exhibitions 1972 Tallinn 1968 Tallinn, Kaunas 1967 Tartu Art Museum 1962 Tallinn Art Hall, Moscow 1939 Konstnärshuset, Stockholm (paintings, textile, porcelain, leatherwork) 1938 Tallinn Art Hall (paitings, applied art) 1936 Strindberg Art Salon, Helsinki (paintings) 1934 Studio Manifestation of the paintings made in Greece, Studio of Tallinn Art Hall 1929 Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn (paintings; textiles made in Tallinn Women´ Vocational School) Awards and Honours 1945 1st prize of the tapestry designs contest (with Evald Okas) 1943–1950 Honoured Artist of ESSR, in 1962 the honorary title was retrieved