Arnold Akberg (4 February 1894 – 7 October 1984) was an Estonian

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Early life

Akberg was born in

Võipere Võipere is a village in Kadrina Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the ...

, Haljala Parish,

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(now in

Kadrina Parish Kadrina Parish () is a rural municipality in Lääne-Viru County, northern Estonia. It covers an area of 329.26 km² (10% of the total area of the county) and has a population of 5,156 (as of January 1, 2004). The parish has had its current ...

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). He studied at a Teacher's College in

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in 1920, then began teaching in Tallinn. He was mostly a self-taught person, but he had help from

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, who was also an Estonian painter. He died, aged 90, in Tallinn.

Style

His paintings were described as

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, with them having a clear composition and delicate colours.

Exhibitions

Akberg held many exhibitions throughout his career, some solo and some with other artists. Among his most successful solo exhibitions were the 1968 Museum of Applied Arts (Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design), the 1967 exhibition in Tallinn, his exhibition in the Pärnu Museum of Art in 1973. In 1984 he exhibited at the USSR State Art Museum. Akberg also held group exhibitions with other famous artists. He was a participant at the 1929 exhibition of Estonian art in Helsinki, the Estonian exhibition in

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and Copenhagen in 1930, and the 1935 Estonian art exhibition in Moscow, Russia.

Awards

Akberg was the recipient of the 1984 Konrad Hilltop Medal.

References

1894 births 1984 deaths People from Kadrina Parish People from Kreis Wierland 20th-century Estonian painters 20th-century Estonian male artists Burials at Metsakalmistu {{Estonia-painter-stub