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Rein Tammik (born March 22, 1947 in Valga) is an Estonian painter. In 1991 immigrated to France.

From 1991 French artist living in Normandy, France.

In the early 1991’s, he settled in Eu, Normandy In 1967 – 1973 he studied at the Tartu Art School and after Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

In 1975 Rein Tammik received the prize of Moscow Young Artist “for the genre” for his painting “Vosxodiaschee”, which was subsequently acquired by Tretiakov Gallery. A member and exhibitor of the Moscow Association of Fine Arts, USSR Society of Artist.

In 1981 Member of Society of Filmmakers of USSR. He participated in the Spring exhibitions in the halls of the Academy of Arts. In the early 1991s, he settled in EU Normandy France. He works from 1991 to 1993 with French Gallery Les 3 soeurs in exclusivity. Exhibited in Chapelle d’Eu in 1991 with 20 others Estonian Artists, as Kormashov, Kurvitz, Mudist ,Tiina Tammetalu. Rein Tammik was selected by Ants Juske, famous art critic and writer, as best artist painter in Estonia in 1990. Rein Tammik is the symbol of the vitality of Estonian art, and particularly of hyperrealist of Soviet art, then since his installation in France of a hyper emotionalism, an artistic language determined by the observation of light effects, applying to render the unique phenomenon seen in a given place and time.

His works since 1991 are much sought after by French and German, English museums because they were influenced by modern French painters such as Monet, Renoir and he subsequently freed himself from the Soviet imprint.

Rein Tammik is one of the few Estonian painters to have successfully undergone international auctions and records prices in France, Germany and England.