Märt Bormeister
(1916–1991)
Landscape with an Elm. 1976
Oil, cardboard. 37 x 56 cm (framed)
price 2 000
A typical glade with an ethnographic garden and a single tree (elm), which in this painting ‘grows into the sky’. The horizon is located in the middle of the painting, providing space for both painting the ground and painting the sky. The buzzing light lets you guess the soft autumn. As one of the few painters, Märt Bormeister also considered himself a photographer, considering photography to be a valuable means of self-expression in his own right, and not just an aid to painting. In this respect, he was ahead of his time, as photography became important in Estonian art as an independent type of art in the 1990s.