Ants Viidalepp - "Kalevipoeg at his father's grave" (Kalevipoeg isa haual)
Color lithograph (1964) after the original gouache of 1961.
Printed signature.
Sheet dimensions: 23 x 19.5 cm.
Lithograph dimensions: 20 x 11 cm.
Very good condition.
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Painter Ants Viidalepp (1921–2012) was an Estonian painter born in 1921 in Tallinn.
Graduated from Väike-Maarja high school as an external student in 1941, then studied at the Tallinn School of Visual and Applied Arts and from 1943 at the Higher Visual Arts Courses in Tartu. Graduated from the Tartu State Art Institute mainly as a student of J. Võerahansu in 1948.
A. Viidalepp already performed the duties of a lecturer at the institute as a student, after graduation he continued as a lecturer at the Tartu department of ERKI until 1953, then as a lecturer at the Tallinn University
From 1960 to 1994, Viidalepp worked as a painting instructor at the Estonian Academy of Arts—becoming a professor in 1973—and later served as a professor emeritus.
He was an honorary member of the Estonian Artists' Association.