Riigikogu President Lauri Hussar together with artist Aapo Puk opened a portrait of the former Riigikogu President and current Vice President Jüri Ratas in the Riigikogu President’s Gallery in Toompea Castle.
The Hussar said that Jüri Ratas is the youngest president of the Riigikogu in the portraits displayed in this gallery. “Ratas has served as president and vice-president of the Riigikogu and prime minister. As an energetic, determined and firm leader, he still has a significant future ahead of him,” Hussar said. He handed over the blue-black-white national flag to Ratas, which flew on the Pika Hermann Tower during his term as president of the Riigikogu.
Aapo Pukk described the course of the painting process and said that the posing took place in front of the door of the Riigikogu hall. “Jüri is a warm, direct and open person,” Pukk said. He added that while posing we talked about children, school, teaching, our country, parents, hobbies, God. The view of the Riigikogu session hall was chosen for the painting. In the background you can see a lectern and the president’s chair. “It seemed important to me to show the interior design of the beautiful hall of the Riigikogu building,” explained Pukk.
Already more than twenty years ago, here, in Toompea Castle, the portrait gallery of the presidents of the re-independent Estonian Riigikogu was inaugurated. The first was inaugurated in 2000 Ülo Nugise portrait of the old master Evald Okas.
In the same year (2011) the president of the Riigikogu was painted Toomas Varek the author of the portrait is Orest KormašovXII and XIII by the President of the Riigikogu Nothing about Nestor he made a painting in 2015 Juri Arak.
Chicken Põlluaasa the author of the portrait was again Lauri Sillak, with the stage name Laurentsius. The painting was created in 2021.
According to tradition, all presidents of the Riigikogu during the regaining of independence chose an Estonian artist to paint their portrait.
Photo from the Riigikogu presidents gallery
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2023-12-13 10:29:29
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