Anu Põder
Anu Põder (17 November 1947 – 17 January 2013) was an Estonian visual artist. Põder was born in Kanepi. 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.
Anu Põder
- Born
- 1947 · Kanepi.
- Died
- 2013 · Tallinn.
- Nationality
- Estonia
- Occupation
- sculptor · art educator
- Languages
- Estonian
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Anu Põder (17 November 1947 – 17 January 2013) was an Estonian visual artist. Põder was born in Kanepi. 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.
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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. International recognition for Põder did not come until after the exhibition Anu Põder: Be Fragile! Be Brave, curated by Rebeka Põldsam for the Kumu. Põder died in Tallinn, aged 65.
Anu Põder is recorded with the occupation art educator. Recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as sculptor and art educator.
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1947
Anu Põder was born on 17 November 1947.
2013
Anu Põder died on 17 January 2013.
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Kanepi.
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