Arnold Alas (known as Arnold Hoffart until 1939; 1 July 1911 – 20 April 1990) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n landscape architect and artist. Alas was born in

Tapa Tapa, TAPA, Tapas or Tapasya may refer to: Media *Tapas (website), a webtoon site, formerly known as Tapastic * ''Tapas'' (film), a 2005 Spanish film * ''Tapasya'' (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language film * ''Tapasya'' (1992 film), a Nepalese f ...

, and died, aged 78, in

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. He is most known for his work on the

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memorial ensemble in

, which is now widely referred to as the

Bronze Soldier The Bronze Soldier ( et, Pronkssõdur, russian: Бронзовый солдат, ''Bronzovyj soldat'') is the informal name of a controversial Soviet World War II war memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, built at the site of several war graves, which w ...

and includes a two-meter bronze statue (by Enn Roos) of a soldier in a

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uniform and an accompanying monumental stone structure. The memorial was relocated amid controversy in April 2007 to the Defence Forces Cemetery in

References

Alas, Arnold - haljastusarhitekt ja maalikunstnik
by Arthur Ruusmaa.
Pronkssõduri müür on värav surnuteriiki
by Tõnu Virvet. 1911 births 1990 deaths People from Tapa, Estonia People from the Governorate of Estonia 20th-century Estonian male artists Soviet architects 20th-century Estonian architects Soviet artists {{Estonia-architect-stub