Mall Valk
{{Short description|Estonian ceramist (1935–1976)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mall Valk
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Mall Sooster
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|6|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Ühtri, Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County, Estonia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|10|12|1935|6|2|mf=y}}
| death_place = Tallinn, Estonia
| nationality = Estonian
| alma_mater = State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR
| occupation = Ceramist
| spouse = Heinz Valk
}}
Mall Valk (née Mall Sooster; June 2, 1935 – October 12, 1976) was an Estonian ceramist.{{cite news |title=In memoriam |url=https://dea.digar.ee/cgi-bin/dea?a=d&d=sirpjavasar19761022.1.15&e=-------et-25--1--txt-txIN%7ctxTI%7ctxAU%7ctxTA------------- |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=Sirp ja Vasar |issue=43 |date=October 22, 1976 |page=15}}
Early life and education
Mall Valk was born in Ühtri, Estonia as the daughter of the teachers Julius Sooster (1902–1942) and Elvi Sooster (1909–1978). When she was six years old, her father was executed by the NKVD in Irkutsk.{{cite book |last1=Vrager |first1=Elmar |title=Hiiumaa ja Hiidlased |date=1971 |publisher=Estoprint Limited |location=Scarborough, Ontario |page=172}} In 1961, she graduated from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (now the Estonian Academy of Arts).
Career
In the 1960s and 1970s, Valk created humorous and sometimes grotesque plastic works based on situations and puns in ceramic. She was one of the ceramists that executed a panel in the Central Library of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1964 based on a design by Lepo Mikko.{{cite journal |last1=Raam |first1=Villem |title=Mõned sõnad Lepo Mikkost, monumentaalmaalist ja uuest keraamilisest pannoost |journal=Nõukogude Naine |date=July 1964}}{{cite journal |title=Keraamiline pannoo |journal=Nõukogude Eesti |date=May 1964 |volume=14 |issue=763 |page=5 |url=https://www.efis.ee/et/filmiliigid/film/id/12245/sisukokkuvote |access-date=March 3, 2024}} She died of lung cancer in Tallinn in 1976.
Family
Mall Valk was the cousin of the painter Ülo Sooster (1924–1970).{{cite news |last1=Mäeumbaed |first1=V. |title=Hiiumaa ajaloomälestised |url=https://dea.digar.ee/cgi-bin/dea?a=d&d=noukogudehiiumaa19720224.2.10&e=-------et-25--1--txt-txIN%7ctxTI%7ctxAU%7ctxTA------------- |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=Nõukogude Hiiumaa |issue=24 |date=February 24, 1972 |page=3}} She was married to the caricaturist and politician Heinz Valk.{{cite news |last1=Laid |first1=Kadi |title=Teine suguvõsanäitus esitleb Soostereid |url=https://dea.digar.ee/cgi-bin/dea?a=d&d=hiiuleht20091229.1.8&e=-------et-25--1--txt-txIN%7ctxTI%7ctxAU%7ctxTA------------- |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=Hiiu Leht |issue=101 |date=December 29, 2009 |page=8}}
Works
- 1962: Jane Eyre
- 1967: Isa silmaterad (Father's Eyes)
- 1967: Malekuningas (Chess King)
- 1970: Pärlikukk (Guinea Cock)
- 1970: Pärlikana (Guinea Hen)
References
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Category:People from Hiiumaa Parish
Category:Estonian women ceramists
Category:Estonian Academy of Arts alumni
Category:Burials at Metsakalmistu
Category:Deaths from lung cancer
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