Artur Lokk 1928–1996 Otepää Landscape. 1960

Artur Lokk was born in 1928 and died in 1996. He studied art in Tartu in the late 1940s and later worked as an art teacher and designer. Lokk is well known for his South Estonian landscapes, as well as portraits and still lifes. In addition, he also created abstract works, but due to the pressures of the era, he did not exhibit them.

This work belongs to Lokk’s series of South Estonian views. The Otepää area was often painted: the hills and small elevations made the landscape varied and rhythmic, bluish lakes added vitality, and the sky could be rendered with more dreamlike layers.