Richard Sagrits (19 December 1910 in

Karepa Karepa is a village in Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) Kalame Farm Museum The Kalame Farm Museum (or Richard Sagrits Museum) is a farm museum in the village. Part of the museum's collection ...

– 11 December 1968 in

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) was an

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. Sagrits (with

Elmar Kits Elmar Kits ( 1913 – 24 March 1972) was an Estonian painter.Ants Juskhttp://www.epl.ee/news/kultuur/elmar-kits-andekas.d?id=51141267/ref> References 1913 births 1972 deaths Artists from Tartu People from Kreis Dorpat 20th-century Es ...

and

Evald Okas Evald Okas (28 November 1915 – 30 April 2011) was an Estonian painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes. Biography Okas was born in Tallinn, where he began his artistic career while studying at the State Art School. With the adv ...

) painted the ceiling of the

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in the style of Socialist Realism in 1947. His works can be seen in the Karepa Kalame Farm Museum,

Vihula Parish Vihula Parish () was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It had a population of 1,939 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 364.28 km2. Settlements There was 1 small borough (Võsu) and 52 villages: Aasumetsa, Adaka, ...

Lääne-Viru County Lääne-Viru County ( or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern. Lääne-Viru borders Id ...

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1910 births 1968 deaths People from Haljala Parish People from Kreis Wierland 20th-century Estonian painters 20th-century Estonian male artists Soviet painters Estonian modern painters 8th Estonian Rifle Corps personnel Honoured Workers of the Arts Industry of the Estonian SSR {{estonia-painter-stub