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Olav Maran
20.10.1933 Tartu
At the beginning of his career, Maran was very interested in modern art trends. The first abstract paintings were completed in 1957-59. In the 1960s, Maran experimented with several trends in modern art, trying to bring the art experience contained in them to Estonian art as well. In addition to oil painting, he used gouache, tempera, pastel, collage. As one of the leaders of the avant-garde of Estonian art, he gave lectures and published articles on the applications of modern art.
In exhibitions Maran mostly displayed cityscapes and still lives with a simplified treatment of form.
The year 1968 was a turning point, when the artist's worldview turned towards religiosity. Since then he has painted nature-loving poetic pictures of the nature of Northern Estonia, flowers, preferably amaryllis, lilies and peonies, especially white ones, and old-fashioned still lives. Inspiringly expressing his clarified sense of life, Maran treats the nature and simple everyday objects with piety, which acquires inner harmony and a deeper ethical meaning.
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1959 | graduated from the Estonian State Art Institute as a graphic designer, for the thesis designed a poster series |
1959-1965 | artists of magazine “Pikker” , then a freelance artist |
1965 | Member of the Estonian Artists\' Association |
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
1967 | Cafe of the Tartu University |
1971 | the Estonian Art Museum |
1976 | Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone |
1978 | the Estonian Art Museum |
1982 | the Tartu Art Muuseum |
1983 | Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone |
1985 | the Gallery Draakon, Tallinn |
1987 | the Tallinna City Museum |
1991 | the Haapsalu Centre of Culture |
the Kivisilla Gallery, Tartu |
1992 | the Tartu Art Muuseum |
Gallery Tokko & Arrak, Tallinn |
1993 | Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone |
the Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn |
1999 | the Raatuse Gallery, Tallinn |
2000 | the Eesti Pank Gallery, Tallinn |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1965 | Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone (with L.Sarapuu) |
1967 | the Tartu Art Muuseum (with E.Põldroos and O.Subbi) |
1968 | Bakuu (with E.Põldroos and O.Subbi) |
1973 | “ Art of the Baltic Republics”, Moscow |
1986 | “Tallinner Malerei der Gegenwart”, Kiel, Germany; Venice, Italy |
1988 | Harjavalta, Finland |
Trento, Italy | |
1990 | the VII Vilnius Painting Triennal |
1997 | Domini Canes, Tallinn (with A.Liik) |
1999 | the Embassy of the European Union, Tallinn (with H.Palm) |
PRIZES:
1979 | Annual prize of the Estonian Artists\' Association |
1984 | Annual prize of the Estonian Artists\' Association |
1987 | Annual prize of Kristjan Raud |
1990 | Grand Prix of the Vilnius Painting Triennal |
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:
The Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinna Kunstihoone, the Tretyakov Gallery, many private collections in Estonia and abroad.