1. Agaate Veeber was an Estonian graphic artist and illustrator who began her career in the 1920s in her native country of Estonia and continued in the United States after immigrating in 1948.
11 Facts About Agaate Veeber
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Agaate Veeber was born Agaate Wilhelmine Kanto in Tallinn to Karel and Ann Kanto.
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Agaate Veeber had one sister, Auguste Henriette, born in 1899.
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Agaate Veeber attended secondary school at the Tallinn City I Girls' Gymnasium and began her artistic studies at Ants Laikmaa's Studio School in Tallinn, initially studying painting.
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Agaate Veeber had a number of exhibitions throughout the 1930s in Estonia, as well as in Rome, Antwerp, and Budapest.
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Early graphic pieces from Agaate Veeber include portraits, monuments, and cityscapes in peaceful and meditative black and white tones.
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Shortly after arriving in the United States, Agaate Veeber illustrated the first edition of Estonian author and fellow exile Henrik Visnapuu's 1948 novel Mare Balticum.
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Agaate Veeber continued to exhibit throughout her life, with personal exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art ; the Estonian House in New York ; the Peetri Church Hall of Toronto, and the Art Museum of Estonia at Kadriorg Palace.
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Agaate Veeber was a member of American Graphic Artists Association.
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The couple had no children and Kuno Agaate Veeber committed suicide in Tallinn in 1929.
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Agaate Veeber never remarried and lived in New York from 1948 until her death at age 87 in 1988.