Lembit Lõhmus (born 25 September 1947) is 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 printmaker. He born in

Mustla Mustla is a small borough (') in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 818. 1938–1979 Mustla was a town with town privileges. In June 2018, a plaque commemorating Alfons Rebane was un ...

, Viljandi County. In 1969, he began studies at the

Tartu Art School Tartu Art School ( et, Tartu Kunstikool) is an upper secondary vocational art school in the city of Tartu, Estonia. TAS provides study programs for aspiring decorator-stylists (interior designers), print media designer-desktop publishers, 3D-m ...

and graduated ''cum laude'' from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR in 1975. From 1975 to 1977 he worked at 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 t ...

as the head of the Department of Applied Arts. From 1977 until 1988, he worked as an interior designer. 1989-1992 he was the president of Tallinn Bookplate Club. From 1989 until 2003, he was a freelance printmaker. From 2003 until 2010, he worked at Eesti Postmark and designed over two hundred postage stamps for six countries. He has created over five hundred

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and small prints in wood, copper and steel engravings. He is the designer of the reverse design of the

Estonian euro coins Estonian euro coins feature a single design for all eight coins. This is a design by Lembit Lõhmus and features a silhouette map of Estonia together with the word Eesti (Estonia) and twelve stars, symbolic of the European Union, surrounding the ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lohmus, Lembit Living people 1947 births Estonian stamp designers Estonian printmakers 20th-century Estonian male artists 21st-century Estonian male artists Estonian Academy of Arts alumni People from Viljandi Parish