Early Life, Family and Training Kaja Kärner was born Kaja Otsason on August 3, 1920, in Tartu, Estonia. Her early years were shaped by the academic rigor of the Estonian art schools. Between 1937 and 1939, she studied at the State School of Arts and Crafts in Tallinn. This period of formal instruction continued as she moved through the Konrad Mägi Higher State School of Art from 1940 to 1941, and later at the Pallas Higher Art School…