''Lennuk'' is a painting by

Nikolai Triik Nikolai Voldemar Triik (7 August 1884, Tallinn – 12 August 1940, Tallinn) was an Estonian Modernist painter, graphic artist, printmaker and professor. His work displays elements of Symbolism and Expressionism. Biography He came from a middle ...

of 1910,Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Lennuk
depicting Lennuk,"Lennuk" is also the Estonian word for "aeroplane" the ship of Kalevipoeg, son of Kaleva, from the Estonian national epic ''

Kalevipoeg ''Kalevipoeg'' (, ''Kalev's Son'') is a 19th century Epic poetry, epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald which has since been considered the Estonian national epic. Origins In pre-Christian ancient Estonia there existed an oral tradition ...

''. The work measures 73.8 cm by 137 cm and is painted in

tempera Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...

and pastel on paper. It is part of the collection of the

Art Museum of Estonia The Art Museum of Estonia ( et, Eesti Kunstimuuseum) was established in 1919. Originally based in Kadriorg Palace, the museum has expanded across several sites and today exhibits both international and local art works. At the end of the 1970s, in ...

and is exhibited in the Kumu Art Museum in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

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Bifrost.it Lennuk

Sirp.ee Kaks Nikolai Triiki
(Brad Pushaw, translated by Ulla Juske, 7 August 2014) 1910 paintings Collections of the Art Museum of Estonia Estonian paintings Maritime paintings {{Estonia-hist-stub