Günther Reindorff
(1889–1974)
Lone Tree on a Forest Background. 1967
Graphite, paper. Vm 13.3 x 10.3 cm (framed)
price 1 300
Günther Reindorff loved to depict nature and the heritage landscape, heritage architecture, things which are ‘for the soul’. His drawings have a good balance between detail and generalisation. Günther Reindorff was educated in applied graphics at the Stieglitz School of Art in St Petersburg, which enabled him to create stamps, banknotes, etc. as a precision artist, while he also worked as a teacher of applied graphics at the Tallinn Industrial Art School. In freehand graphics, we see him as a creative and likeable traditionalist, whose unexpected imagination was ignited when he illustrated Kreutzwald’s Eesti rahva ennemuisted jutud (Ancient Tales of Estonian People), written in 1866 (1951 edition).