Eduard Ahas 1901–1944 Maastik. 1920

Connection of Eduard Ahas and art seems to be inevitable. Already at the age of 16 Ahas, having been born in a peasant's family, took up art studies and a couple of years later he became one of the first students of "Pallas". After having participated in the War of Independance as a volunteer, Ahas also started studying of art history and later became famous both as an artist and a critic. At the end of the 1930ies Ahas taught in his previous school, the Hugo Treffner Gümnasium, but after starting of the World War II he went again to the war. In September of 1944 Ahas was killed by a bullet of a Red Army soldier not very far from home.
The current work is a rare example of the creation of Ahas, who died young and who mainly painted portraits. It is amazing and totally of different style - depicting of the heaven resembles of the expressive landscapes of Konrad Mägi. Clouds of clear lines and single pieces of landscape remind us about stained glass approach to painting, where the whole picture is put together of fragments.