
Teodor Ussisoo (also Theodor Ussisoo; 27 February 1878
Paide – 26 September 1959,
Tallinn) was an
Estonian pedagogue, furniture designer, and interior architect.
Attended a district school between 1888–94 and a railway technical college in Tallinn between 1895 and 1898. In 1909 he graduated in furniture making in
Leipzig,
Germany, and in 1913 interior architecture at the
Köthen Technical Art School. He worked as a school teacher in Tallinn and was appointed the head of the State Technical School in 1922. Ussisoo was responsible for the designs of the first
Estonian kroons and postage stamps issued after the establishment of the Estonian republic in 1918. Ussisoo was arrested by the
Soviet occupation authorities in 1949 and deported to
Krasnoyarsk Krai and was released in 1956. His son Uno Ussisoo was an encyclopedist and translator.
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1878 births
1959 deaths
People from Paide
People from the Governorate of Estonia
20th-century Estonian painters
20th-century Estonian male artists
Estonian architects
Gulag detainees
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