Abstractionism in Latvian Painting

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

The impressive winter landscape once adorned the apartments of Emīlija Benjamiņa, the millionaire owner of the most popular newspaper “Jaunākās Ziņas”. However, during Soviet times...

In 1925, at the first exhibition of the OST, the painter I. Kudriashov presented two series of paintings: the Construction of Straight Line Movement and the Construction of Curvili...

The painting shows a naked man with his head held high standing on a gilded sleigh drawn by four strong men, two pulling and two pushing. A one-eyed priest is shown in the centre o...

In this panoramic landscape characteristic of 19th century painting, two seemingly contradictory principles of been combined – the informative and the emotional. In this expansive ...

Jānis Tīdemanis trained at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Art from 1922 till 1927 and continued his studies until 1934 under Isidore Opsomer at the National Institute of Fine Arts in...

The whole of Riga society used to talk about the singular visual image of artist Kārlis Padegs. This would have long been forgotten were it not for his unique talent. The power of ...