About Nikolai Root
Lived 1870 – 1960 (aged 89). Nikolai Root was an Estonian artist.
Nikolai Root (, November 24, 1870 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian–Estonian painter.
Early life and education Nikolai Root was born in Saint Petersburg. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris 1895 and with Anton Ažbe in Munich in 1897. In 1900, he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, and he received an invitation to teach drawing in pedagogy courses.
Career Root started working as a drawing teacher in Yerevan in 1900. Because he had also studied ceramics, he directed the Kamianets-Podilskyi Ceramics School in Ukraine from 1909 to 1912, Root lived in Kuressaare during World War II, and he returned to Tallinn in 1945. Root joined the Estonian Soviet Artists Association in 1945.
Filmography 1925: Tšeka komissar Miroštšenko (The Cheka Commissar Miroshchenko): set design
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Who was Nikolai Root?
Estonian-Russian painter (1870–1960)
When was Nikolai Root born?
Nikolai Root was born on 24 November 1870 in Saint Petersburg.
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Nikolai Root died on 10 May 1960 in Tallinn.
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Nikolai Root was an artist.
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Nikolai Root was Estonian.
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