Tõnis Soop

From 1952 to 1957, he studied at the Tartu School of Fine Arts, graduating as a teacher of drawing and sketching.

[1] During his studies and afterward, Soop worked as a drawing teacher from 1958 to 1966, as an artist at the Estonian SSR State Philharmonic from 1960 to 1961, at Estonian Industrial Project Design [et] from 1965 to 1987, and at the Kirov Collective Fishing Farm (later Esmar) from 1972 to 1992.

He taught courses at the Estonian SSR Republican Teacher Training Institute [et] and in Värska, Saint Petersburg, and Pärnu.

As an artist, Soop mainly created oil and watercolor paintings, but he also produced large-scale works using the sgraffito technique (e.g., Kalad (Fish) in the lobby of the Esmar building in Viimsi and sgraffito in the building of the former high school in Viimsi), large advertising works, and wooden sculptures (e.g., Konn (Frog) for the Viimsi Winter Garden [et]), and he designed books.

Foreign exhibitions of his works were held in Mongolia, Japan, Russia, Norway, and Sweden.