Pallas Art School () was an

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

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which existed from 1919 to 1944 in Tartu. The school was the first Estonian art school that offered higher education in art. The school was established in 1919 by the

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Art Society. Key persons in its establishment were Konrad Mägi, Aleksander Tassa,

Ado Vabbe Ado Vabbe (19 March 1892 – 20 April 1961) was an Estonian painter, printmaker, and teacher. Ado Vabbe is known for bringing abstraction back home to Estonia after being educated at Anton Ažbe's art school in Munich from 1911 to 1913. Active a ...

, Johannes Einsild, and Anton Starkopf. The school offered courses in painting, graphics, and sculpture. The building was destroyed in a fire during street battles of the Soviet Tartu Offensive on 26 August 1944. After the fire, surviving items from the basement (supplies and ovens) were taken to the

Ugala Ugala is a theatre in Viljandi, Estonia. The theatre was founded in 1920 opening on January 10 of that year. The first production was Oscar Wilde's "Salome (play), Salome". Ugala's Artistic Directors *1925 - 1926: Andres Särev *1926 – 1928 ...

premises, where the Tartu State Art Institute was established and operated from 1944 to 1951, when it merged with the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR in Tallinn.

Notable alumni

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(1893–1969), painter *

Alo Hoidre Alo Hoidre (until 1935 Horn, né Aleksander; January 26, 1916 – October 2, 1993) was an Estonian painter, book illustrator, and printmaker. Life Hoidre was born in Petrograd, Russia, and he moved to Tallinn with his family in 1920, where he a ...

(1916–1993), painter * Ernst Jõesaar (1905–1985), sculptor * Ott Kangilaski (1911–1975), printmaker * Raoul Kernumees (1905–1990), printmaker and painter * Leida Kibuvits (1907–1976), writer * Elmar Kits (1913–1972), painter * Erich Leps (1901–1965), painter * Pauline Elfriede Leps-Estam (1903–2002), printmaker * Kaarel Liimand (1906–1941), painter * Karin Luts (1904–1993), painter * Hando Mugasto (1907–1937), printmaker * Karl Pärsimägi (1902–1942), painter * Salme Rosalie Riig (1903–1973), sculptor and printmaker *

Enn Roos Enn Roos (20 September 1908 – 15 July 1990) was an Estonian sculptor. He was a member of the Pallas (society), Artists Society Pallas and a founding member of the Estonian Artists Association. Roos studied in the studios of Ants Laikmaa fro ...

(1908–1990), sculptor * Erika Siilivask (1902–1993), pedagogue * Kristjan Teder (1901–1960), painter *

Aleksander Vardi Aleksander Vardi (until 1940 Aleksander Bergman; 4 September 1901 Tartu – 18 June 1983 Tartu) was an Estonian painter. In 1919, Vardi enrolled at the Pallas Art School, studying under the instruction of Konrad Mägi and Ado Vabbe, graduating ...

(1901–1983), painter * Agaate Veeber (1901–1988), graphic artist * Kuno Veeber (1898–1929), painter and graphic artist * Johannes Võerahansu (1902–1980), painter * Eduard Wiiralt (1898–1954), graphic artist

References

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