"A companion in both generation and fate."
Art historian Eha Komissarov called Henn Roode "Sooster's companion in both generation and fate."
They studied together at the Higher Art School "Pallas." They were arrested together in 1949, exiled, and served their sentences in Karlag. They were released in 1956.
"Of the painters of that time in Estonia, only Roode can be associated with what is now considered formalism or modernism."
The exhibition "Henn Roode - A Modernist Defying Fate" was held at the Kumu Art Museum in 2007.
The exhibition "Sooster - 100: A View from Private Collections" is currently on display at the Mikkel Museum.
As it happened, the artists' graves are located next to each other at Metsakalmistu.
