Sgraffito
Not under conservation as a cultural monument<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1879, glass artist Johan Runge signed an agreement with J\u00e4rvakandi estate owner Otto von Taube, according to which he was authorised to found a glass factory onto the manor\u2019s property and operate there for 20 years. Runge received free timber for constructing the factory, but had to annually purchase firewood from the manor to keep the factory running, as agreed in the contract. In addition, Runge had to turn the whole factory over to the manor after the contract\u2019s termination. Considering the massive amount of firewood necessary for glass manufacturing at the time, and the income that a glass factory could generate in twenty years, the estate owner had signed quite a profitable deal. Unknowingly, he created the foundation for the borough of J\u00e4rvakandi and its glass tradition with the act \u2013 a workers\u2019 settlement soon developed around the glass factory that was built approximately 12 kilometres from the heart of the manor, and it was named J\u00e4rvakandi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first, the glass factory focused on creating jars meant for salting fish, later on the production of bottles and window glasses began. The J\u00e4rvakandi glass factory continued production during the early Estonian Republic, surviving the recession of the 1930s, the nationalisation of 1940, and the frantic 1990s, establishing J\u00e4rvakandi as a known glass-settlement. It is therefore entirely natural that upon receiving the proposition to create an artwork for the freshly constructed J\u00e4rvakandi cinema building Edu (Success) in 1963, the graphic artist Olev Soans chose a glass blower as the mural\u2019s motif. Soans had already met architect Karl L\u00fc\u00fcs, designer of the cinema building, in the late 1940s, earning a living as a drawing teacher in J\u00e4rvakandi. Principal of J\u00e4rvakandi School Aet-Triin Vasnu has researched the local art legacy of Olev Soans. She writes in the Kehtna parish paper Valla Vaatleja<\/em> (\u201cParish Observer\u201d) that Soans, being a professor in the Estonian Academy of Arts, involved his students J\u00fcri Arrak and T\u00f5nu Lauk in the creation process of the Klaasipuhuja<\/em> (\u201cGlassblower\u201d) by asking them \u201cBoys, do you want to earn some money?\u201d Naturally, the boys did. Klaasipuhuja<\/em> is a fairly quintessential sgraffito \u2013 two layers of plaster were applied to the wall, and the students cut the shape of the glassblower from Soans\u2019s design into the darker surface layer, rendering it visible on the bright lower layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rapla County\u2019s first widescreen cinema Edu is in active use today as a club named Club Cinema. Olev Soans\u2019s Klaasipuhuja<\/em> is preserved and valued, and the motif has been implemented on the glass trophy for J\u00e4rvakandi Honorary Citizens, as well as in the lobby of J\u00e4rvakandi School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anu Sooj\u00e4rv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SgraffitoNot under conservation as a cultural monument In 1879, glass artist Johan Runge signed an agreement with J\u00e4rvakandi estate owner Otto von Taube, according to which he was authorised to found a glass factory onto the manor\u2019s property and operate there for 20 years. Runge received free timber for constructing the factory, but had to […]","protected":false},"featured_media":2979,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[91,108],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n