Honored art worker of the Estonian SSR.
Will come Aavik initial art education has received in the Studio of A. Laikmaa, from 1934 to 1938 he studied at the "Pallas" art school under the guidance of N. Trike. It was improved in 1939 in Paris. Since 1938 a member of art society "Pallas". From 1944 to 1945 the Director of the Tartu Art Institute from 1947 to 1948 in Tallinn, the Chairman of the Art Fund.