Memorial or cemetery · 1933
Kepimurdja
The Stick Breaker, Kepimurdja in Estonian, is a sculpture by Juhan Raudsepp, finished in 1933. It stands in Haapsalu on the shore of the Väike viik bay and once stood in the garden of the town's sanatorium. Raudsepp had close ties to Haapsalu from the mid-1920s. He married Elfriede Randfeld, a local woman, and the family spent summers in a house on the Õhtu kallas promenade, where he also built himself a studio. For the town he also made the Boy with a Fish well on the Swedish Market green. Kepimurdja is protected as a national cultural monument. Raudsepp died in 1984, and his own sculpture Taidur from 1973 became his gravestone.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
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"Kepimurdja" on Juhan Raudsepa 1933. aastal valminud skulptuur, mis asub Haapsalus Väikse viigi kaldal. Varem paiknes see sanatooriumi aias. Raudsepp oli Haapsaluga tihedalt seotud alates 1920. aastate keskpaigast. Ta abiellus Haapsalust pärit Elfriede Randfeldiga ning pere elas suviti Õhtu kaldas asuvas majas, kuhu skulptor ehitas endale ka ateljee. Haapsalu jaoks lõi ta ka Rootsi turu haljasalal seisva linnakaevu "Poiss kalaga". "Kepimurdja" on tunnistatud riiklikuks kultuurimälestiseks. Juhan Raudsepp suri 1984. aastal ja tema hauakiviks sai tema enda 1973. aastal valminud skulptuur "Taidur".