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Contrary to the opinion of many foreign colleagues in the early 1990s, who thought that a newly-independent and ex-socialist country would c...
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It would be quite an achievement, to put it mildly, to squeeze an overview of Estonian Neo-Classicism to a mere two three pages. In the 18th...
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Some Western art critics have constructed a simplified scheme which place art of the (post)socialist countries into that produced before the...
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The 17th and 18th centuries, associated in the history of European art with the Baroque, denoted the time of two political powers in Estonia...
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Architect Emil Urbel's houses
After Estonia became independent, the building of private houses increased in the 1920s together with the r...
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The first time Estonia participated in the Venetian Biennale has undoubtedly been an important event for the Estonian art public. It has eve...
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On 4 May 1992, limestone was declared to be Estonia's national stone.
Estonian limestone - grey and dull at first sight, is actually rath...
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Ports have traditionally been gateways to, and symbols of a city or a whole country. In 1991, with the arrival of independence, travelling b...
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The Tallinn Art Hall was built on the initiative of Estonian artists in the 1930s. The joint effort of Anton Soans and Edgar Johan Kuusik is...
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Estonia with its territory of 45 215 square kilometres is a little bit bigger than Denmark, but its population density is four times less an...