Välko Tuul (born Alfred-Oscar Tuul, 1894,

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– 1918, Tallinn) was an Estonian painter.

Biography

Välko Tuul was born in the present-day capital of Estonia, Tallinn, and started studying art in his free time. In 1913 he joined the art school of

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, encouraged by his friend

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. His works were exhibited for the first time in 1915. In 1917, he joined the artist's group ''Vikerla'' together with Oskar Kallis, Aleksander Mülber,

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and Roman Haavamägi. He died of

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in 1918, aged only 23.

Art

The paintings by Tuul are often characterised by an oneiric quality, underlined by his frequent use of blue shades. Stylistically, he can be counted among the Estonian

Symbolists Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

and several of his paintings are on themes from the Estonian national epic

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuul, Valko 1894 births 1918 deaths 20th-century Estonian painters 20th-century Estonian male artists People from the Governorate of Estonia Artists from Tallinn