War Refugees

Ado Vabbe completed about 70-90 paintings in 1941-1950. Figurally relatively realistic compositions completed with scant colouring are characteristic of Vabbe’s creative work from the 1940’s. War Refugees was also probably completed during the war years or immediately after the war. Like many people, Vabbe personally experienced fleeing from war. During the last years of the war, he had to change his lodgings many times with his little son. The fact that the men depicted in the painting are in German uniforms adds controversy to the subject, for which reason the exposition of the exhibition was impossible during the Soviet era and thus the work is also unsigned.