Kuno Veeber, Woman Oil On Canvas

Kuno Veeber,
Nude Woman circa 1925
Oil on canvas, unsigned

Kuno Veeber (18 February 1898 – 1 January 1929) Estonian painter and graphic artist whose career began in the late 1910s. Veeber graduated from the Pallas School of Art in 1924 and went to Paris, where he remained until 1926. In France, he joined the École de Paris, studying with the painter André Lhote and the Greek artist Demetrios Galanis in Montparnasse. A fervent admirer of Paul Cézanne. In 1927, Veeber travelled to Italy with his wife on a scholarship from the Estonian Fine Arts Foundation of the Estonian Cultural Fund to copy works by the Old Masters. During his lifetime, Veeber's works were exhibited outside Estonia by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris and at exhibitions in Riga, Kaunas, Helsinki, Cologne, Copenhagen, Moscow, Rome and Budapest.