''Lennuk'' is a painting by Nikolai Triik of 1910,Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Lennuk
depicting Lennuk,"Lennuk" is also the Estonian word for "aeroplane" the ship of Kalevipoeg, son of

Kaleva Kaleva or Kalevi may refer to: * CWT Kaleva Travel, a travel management company based in Finland * Kalevi (mythology), the great king of Kainuu in Finnish, Karelian and Estonian mythology * ''Kaleva'' (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromal ...

, from the Estonian national epic ''

Kalevipoeg ''Kalevipoeg'' (, ''Kalev's Son'') is a 19th-century 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, known as ...

''. 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 pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. ''Tempera'' also refers to the paintings done in ...

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

Art Museum of Estonia The Art Museum of Estonia () 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 the 1980s the first br ...

and is exhibited in the

Kumu Art Museum The Kumu Art Museum () is an art museum in Tallinn, Estonia. It is one of the largest museums in Estonia and one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe. It is one of the five branches of the Art Museum of Estonia, housing its main offices. ...

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

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Bifrost.it Lennuk

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