Anu Põder
Anu Põder (17 November 1947 – 17 January 2013) was an Estonian visual artist.[1][2][3]
Põder was born in Kanepi.[4] She graduated from Tartu 8th Secondary School (now, the Tartu Forseliuse School) in 1967, then enrolled at the Tartu Art College later that year before leaving in 1970 to study sculpture at the Estonian National Art Institute, graduating in 1976.[5]
From In 1976 until 1988, she was a freelance artist and from 1988 until 1989, she was a teacher of form studies at Secondary School No. 46 in Tallinn. In 1989, she began working as an art teacher at the Tallinn Art School, leaving in 1993 for a position as a teacher of form at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 1998, she began working as a teacher of form at the College of Applied Arts of the Estonian Academy of Arts, and in-service teacher training courses. From 1999 onward, she worked as a teacher at the EAA Teacher Training Centre.[6]
Work by Põder is in the collection of the Tate Modern[7] and the Art Museum of Estonia.[8][9] International recognition for Põder did not come until after the exhibition Anu Põder: Be Fragile! Be Brave, curated by Rebeka Põldsam for the Kumu.[10]
Anu Põder died in Tallinn, aged 65.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Anu Põder. Haprus on vaprus". Kumu kunstimuuseum (in Estonian). Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ "Every Letter is a Love Letter". Tallinna Kunstihoone. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ "Anu Põder | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art". www.biennial.com. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ a b "Anu Põder". EKM Digitaalkogu - Eesti Kunstimuuseum (in Estonian). 2021. Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ "A Tactile Dialect of Strong and Soft and Spiked: Anu Põder at Kumu Art Museum". Afterall. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ Ala, Janar (20 March 2021). "Anu Põder – esimene eestlane Tate'i kogus". Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ Tate. "Anu Põder 1947–2013". Tate. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ "Anu Põder. Haprus on vaprus". Eesti Kunstimuuseum (in Estonian). Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ "Anu Põder | Frieze". Frieze. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ^ Černiauskaitė, Neringa (September 2017). "Neringa Černiauskaitė on Anu Põder". www.artforum.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2021-05-22.