Finnish Landscape

Nikolai Triik (07.08.1884-12.08.1940)

1914
Oil on canvas
37 x 45 cm

Nikolai Triik travelled to Finland in 1914 and visited Gustav and Aino Suits for a few months. Triik had known Gustav Suits, poet and leader of the Young Estonia movement since 1905, when he took the job of designing the Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia) albums and later on the movement’s periodical as well. According to some accounts, Triik completed three oil paintings during that trip to Finland, one of which is this work and another is a portrait of Aino Suits (in Room 1).