Olav Maran 1933 View of Tallinn. 1960

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A rare example of Olav Maran's early work. He graduated from the art institute just a year earlier and had started exhibiting at exhibitions, initially with such small city views. Mart Lepp has written: "Very rarely has an artist chosen motifs from Tallinn Old Town as the subject of his paintings. Olav Maran has preferred to paint the suburbs of Tallinn over this usual temptation. The artist has mostly found the motifs of his paintings where he lived and moved every day. It is an environment that he knows well and thus was able to convey believably. The artist himself is interested in the characteristic and unique mood, its atmosphere, of a place or sometimes a special motif in a cityscape. At the beginning of the sixties, when the artist lived near the paper factory, in his pictures we see the views of the surrounding area and often of the factory itself."