(1901-1980)

TALLINN,ESTONIA

Aino Bach was and still is one of the well known female graphic artists in Estonian art. 

Worked in etching techniques (dry needle, aquatint), monotype. She was engaged in illustrating books, posters.

Studied at the Art Industrial School in Narva (1907-1915), then at the Art Industrial Institute in Omsk (early 1920s), the Higher Art School “Pallas” in Tartu (1924-1935) where her teachers were Nikolay Triik and Ado Vabbe. She lived in Tallinn, during the Second World War and then was in evacuation in Yaroslavl, Russia. She was married to Kaarel Liimand (1906-1941), a famous Estonian artist and fellow student at the Pallas School. At the end of the 1930s, Aino Bach's name was mentioned among the best Estonian artists. Her creative style was accepted by critics and Soviet officials and her works were also bought by Estonian Cultural Capital. Starting from the 1940s, Aino Bach participated in exhibitions in Soviet Estonia as well as in Riga and Kaunas, Rome, Budapest and Antwerp, even if she did not have possibilities to visit them all, her works were presented.

LINKS

https://digikogu.ekm.ee/authors/author_id-439 

WORKS ARE PRESENTED

The Estonian Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia

The Tartu Art Museum, Estonia

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

European private collections.

ARTIST VOICE 

(from Aino Bach memory notes)

Aino Bach talked about how difficult it is for her to start a new portrait, to spoil a clean copper or zinc plate. She wrote: “When I do get on the right line, I find a special inner stillness and peace. Something like this I had already felt as a child when I was looking at a snowfall. White snow, like an endless fairy tale..... That longing remains. In the city, there is always a longing for white snow, for silence. I dream of one day making such a picture - a woman is sitting under the window, snow is falling outside the window, in big white flakes. There's nothing else there. Just silence”