Albert Paap, Scene from a fishing village
Signed A Paap and dated 1924. Canvas 55 x 68 cm.
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Albert Paap (1903 - 1987) was an Estonian cartoonist and artist. Albert Paap was a student of the landscape painter Konrad Mägi, Ado Vabbe, Eduard Wiiralt, and Nikolai Triik. Alongside his studies, he also drew caricatures. Paap's caricatures appeared in several newspapers of the time under the pseudonym Jorsa.
In 1936, he was the head of gas protection in the Tartu County Maleva Alatskivi district of the Defence League. For this, he spent eight and a half years in a prison camp, where he also engaged in art. After his release from prison in 1956, he primarily worked with watercolour and oil painting alongside his main work.
Albert Paap is representad in the collections of The Art Museum of Estonia in Talinn.
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