Soans, Olev (1925 – 1995). Heart mirror

Heart mirror. Illustration for the Work “Prologue and Poems” by Paul Rammo. (1961)

Lithography, paper

19,5 x 18,9

Lower left – Südame peegel. (lito)

Lower right – O.Soans IX 1961

Olev Soans was one of the most outstanding Estonian graphic artists of the 1950s.

Olev Soans graduated from the commercial high school in 1941 in Pärnu. There was a German army mobilized in 1943-44. Worked in 1944-46 as a worker and drawing teacher in Järvakandi. Graduated from the Tallinn State Institute of Applied Art in 1946, graduated from the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1951. Then he was a freelance professor, from 1961 he was a lecturer at the ERKI (a professor from 1987) and a professor emeritus from 1994. A 1951 Member of the Artists’ Association.