
Elmar Leppik was an Estonian painter.
He studied at Tartu Trade School and worked in forestry. He studied painting at the Higher Art School in Pallas from 1935 to 1940 and graduated from the Higher Courses of Figurative Arts in 1943 (the name of the Pallas Art School in the academic year 1942/1943). His main instructor was Aleksander Vardi. The artist drowned in Lake Pühajärve.
Leppik mainly worked in landscape painting. He painted in greyish-brownish, but also in blueish-greenish tones, and his favourite subjects were the fields, forests and lakes of Southern Estonia.
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