Sooster, Ülo (1924 – 1970). Naked Sitting. (1949)

Julo Sooster studied at the Higher Art Courses in 1943-1944 and then at the Tartu Art Institute from 1945 to 1944 under E.Kits. That same year of 1944, in November, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp.
After his release in 1956 Sooster returned to Estonia, but later moved with his wife to Moscow, where their apartment became the center of meetings of the sixties. The house came Yuri Sobolev-Нолев, Ilya Kabakov, Victor Pivovarov, Ernst Unknown; his close friends and associates became Boris zhutovsky and Vladimir Yankilevsky. Julo Sooster participated in defeated by Khrushchev anniversary exhibition of Moscow Union of artists in the Arena.
Julo Sooster exhibited in Leipzig, Moscow, Prague, Cologne, Rome, Venice, Washington, and many other cities.