Latvia - Art

Easter. 1984. Paper, linocut, 25x34 cm imprint size 13x25,5 cm total page size 25x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction pub...

Herdsman's food. 1979. Paper, linocut, 19x33 cm imprint size 9x25 cm total page size 19x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and ficti...

Her beautiful vagina. 2009, ink on paper, 26x17 cm Erotic ink drawing in black and white colors

Portrait. 1970s, cardboard, oil, 50x35,5 cm Woman portrait in light colors Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated ...

Calm sea. Paper, linocut, 26,5x32 cm imprint size 13x20 cm total page size 26,5x32cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publi...

Boat on the river bank. Oil on cardboard, 50x35 cm

Evening sun. 1999, oil on canvas, 70x90 cm Bright, colorful landscape with trees Valdis Bush (1924-2014) studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 195...

Kids of solstice. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9x25 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fict...

Tuileries Garden. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 38x50 cm Light artwork in watercolor technique with blooming flowers in the Paris garden Ingrida Irbe (1969...

Excitation. 1960, paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relative...

The diligent and the lazy herdsman. 1979. Paper, linocut, 19x33 cm imprint size 9x25 cm total page size 19x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of...

Arbitrariness of the master. 1982. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9,5x26 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folk...

Rooster. 1984. Paper, linocut, 25x34 cm imprint size 13x26 cm total page size 25x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publ...

Picnic. 1999, paper, pastel, 28.5x33 cm Colorful abstract composition in fauvist style with figures

Life in manor. 1982. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9x26 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction...

Midsummer ferns. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 12x25 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fict...

Joys,sorrows and difficulties of herdsman. 1979. Paper, linocut, 19x33 cm imprint size 8x24 cm total page size 19x33cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustr...

Painting with fishes, underwater world Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani is a matured and recognized master, as follows from the long list of his exhibitions and countries where his works reside. 1987 - Exhibition of Georgian Artists in the Museum of Ethnography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 1989 - Exhibition of Artists of Leningrad-Lenexpo, Russia 1990 - Exhibition of Van Gogh's memory, "Palette" , Russia 1991 - Exhibition Gallery Palette 1991 - Festival of Leningrad galleries in Manege, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 1992 - Exhibition at Gallery Pinatin, Berlin. 1993 - Exhibition of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. 1993 - Exhibition Gallery 47...

The waterfront. 1990, oil on canvas, 53x85 cm The artwork was published in the catalog - "Jānis Zemītis Glezniecība. Painting." Publisher: Al secco Ltd, 2010, on Page 37 In 1958 he ...

Suburb. 1963, watercolor on paper, 27x38 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, l...

Ladies with fruit. Canvas, oil, 70x100 cm

Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she ende...

Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm Colorful bright artwork with two girls Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...

By the river in the spring. Paper, watercolor, 48x54 cm Arnolds Pankoks (born 1914.21.IX - 2008.) Graduated Art Academy of Latvia (1937 – 43, 1945 – 4...

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

The abstract series of sizable works done in a mixed-media technique pays homage to the great modernists and abstract expressionists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky, Still and Motherwell...

Still Life With Wagtails. 2011. Oil on linen, 40X45 cm

Girl with a rooster. 2020. Oil on canvas, 70x65 cm Colorful bright artwork girl with a rooster Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...

Good morning / Guten Morgen. 2009, oil on canvas, 18x24 cm Woman portrait with eyelash curler in style of 1920 Anita Arbidane (1983) In 2008 graduated Latvian Academy of Arts Depar...

Pioneer Leader. Oil on cardboard, 25x24,5 cm Arnolds Pankoks (born 1914.21.IX - 2008.) Graduated Art Academy of Latvia (1937 – 43, 1945 – 47) with dip...

Brainstorming. 6/450, poster, K. Hayes Fine Arts 1998, 69x49 cm Juris Dimiters (1947) Education: 1958-1965 Janis Rozentals Art High School of Riga 1965-1973 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting Department, specialism in scenography. Solo shows: 1981- Baiba & Leo Benias Gallery, West Berlin (as part of the Skulme family exhibition) 1984- Museum of Foreign Art , Riga; Cēsis Exhibition Hall; 1986- Firebird Gallery, Alexandra; International Images, Pittsburgh, USA. 1987- Exhibition Hall, Jurmala. 1987- Exhibition Hall, Stockholm, Sweden (as part of the Skulme family exhibition) 1989- Delta Art Gallery, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). 1992- Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, USA. 2000- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and State Museum of Art , Riga. 2004- Riga Museum of History and Navigation. 2007- Imagine Gallery, Riga. 2007- Art gallery Laipa, Valmiera. 2007- Moscow house, Riga. 2009- Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, Moscow. 2009- Riga Museum of History and Navigation. 2012- Paintings about Love at Happy Art Museum, Gallery Riga. Awards: 1981- 2nd Prize, International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland. 1982- Faber Castell, International Triennial of Drawings by Young Artists, Nurnberg, Germany. 1982 - 1st Prize, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. 1983- 3rd Prize, International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland. 1983- 1st Prize, Colorado International Poster Exhibition, USA. 1985- 1st Prize, Stage Design Triennial of the Baltic Republics. 1987- Certificate of Honor, honorary diploma Artists Society International Art Achievement Awards Exhibition San Francisco, Ca, USA. 1987- Honorable Mention, Artist Liaison Competition, Santa Monica, Ca, USA. 1988- 1st Prize, Social Poster Section at the exhibition Best Poster in Riga. 1989- Certificate of Honour, International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland. 1989- Meritorious Artist of the Latvian SSR. Museums and Collections: Art Collection of the nascent Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia. Museum of the Artists’ Union of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Cremona Fund, Maryland, USA. New Orleans Museum of Art, USA Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA Private collections in Latvia, USA, Russia, Germany, Sweden. Literature: J. Dimitrers, J. Borgs“Juris Dimiters. Plakāti” – R.: Iespiests Jelgavas tipogrāfijā, Rīga, 2014. Juris Dimiters is among the most intellectual and witty artists of his generation. The characters of his works – paintings and posters – mostly are anthropomorphized fruits and objects. Placed within games of mutual interrelationships, they have become actors in the theatre directed by the artist. Over time the personages of the still-life have constantly transformed and migrated both among groups of work and media, embodying new roles in each of them. Nevertheless, they have always actively commented on one of three subjects – power, society and the everyday. J. Dimiters’ paintings and posters strike...

The colors of the soul - 16. 2017. Oil on canvas, 30x30 cm Fantasy painting woman face Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983, currently li...

Composition with roses. Oil on cardboard, 50x40 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School o...

To the future. 2016. cardboard, author's technique, 21x27 cm Composition with red creatures on the blue Ivars Zaikins (1942-2017) Zaikins Ivars - an artist. He was born in 1942. Du...

Silhouette. 1997, oil on canvas, 57x69 cm Abstract still life with guitar in red colors In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art...

Sea Oil on canvas, 81x75 cm 1989 Paikule Arija (1955).

Threads. Paper, watercolor, 100x72 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she endeav...

Autumn landscape. 1978. Paper, watercolor, 53x62 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers a...

Composition No. 7. 1976, veneer, tempera, 81,5x64,3 cm Composition with 4 orange objects on dark blue background Boris Nikolajevitch Bitch / Борис Николаевич Бич (1946) - Russian suprematism artist. He studied at the art studio of D. G. Sobolev. Since 1975 he participated in informal exhibitions. In 1977 he joined painting section at the City Committee of graphic artists at Malaya Gruzinskaya, 28. Since 1982 - one of the group "21" leaders, group "20" exhibitions participant. Creative work He created a paintings series from several series: 1977 - compositions GEO (geometric unity), 1979 - compositions GEOKON (geometric constructions), 1982 - compositions GEOMED (geometric mediums), 1986 - compositions GEOEX (geometric expressionism) and Pangeometric constants, 1988 - GEMGER (geometric hermeneutics). A new large works series of recent years "Dialogues with Malevich" is a suprematist composition that made on geographical maps of various world regions. The author's works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in private collections in Russia, Europe, Canada and the USA. Participation in exhibitions 1979 "Color, shape, space" City Committee of graphic. Moscow, M.Gruzinskaya 1986 "Object" Moscow, M.Gruzinskaya 1987 "Geometry in Art" in Moscow 1989 "Labyrinth" The Moscow Palace of Youth. Moscow, Warsaw, Hamburg 1990 Gallery Floor, Stockholm, Sweden 1990 "Other Art" State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow 1991 "The Art of Europe" Wilhelmshafen. Germany. 1992 "Moscow avant-garde of the 50-80's" Kleinsassen. Germany 1992 "Cultural contact" Neumarkt. Austria 1993 Art-Myth. Manege. Moscow 1993 "Culture and Politics in Russia" Gallery Zandman. Hamburg. Germany 1994 "”No” to conformism" Russian Museum. Russia, St. Petersburg 1995 Exhibition of unofficial Russian artists. The Halle Museum. Germany 1995 "Exhibition of six Moscow artists" CHA. Moscow 1997, 1998 Art-Manege. Moscow 1999 Exhibition. The museum of L.Talochkin. RSUH. Moscow 2000, 2004 "Pleskoye gravitation" Museum of the landscape. Russia. Ples 2000 "Dedication to Malevich" New gallery. Moscow 2000-2001 "Russian art" Japanese house. Moscow 2001 "Abstraction of the XX century" The State Russian Museum. Russia. St. Petersburg 2002 "Russian avant-garde" Russian house...

The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid,...

Guest. 1981, author technique on plywood, 89x54,5 cm Mihailov Vyacheslav Sawich / Михаилов Вячеслав Саввич (1945) EDUCATION Painting Sculpture...

Landscape with trees. 1991, canvas, cardboard, oil, 34x49 cm Valdis Bush (1924-2014) studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. Skride, L....

Magic realism 41/78. 1978., oil on canvas, 100x140 cm JURIS SOIKANS (1920-1995) 1990. Member of the Artists’ Union, Latvia 1989. Visiting lecturer at...

Composition with women. 1968. Paper, pencil, 35x24.5 cm Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family. Vladimir Glushenkov...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting "La Goulue, together with two women" Moulin Rouge "" copy - Unknown artist, oil on сanvas, 73x60 cm

At the Seine. 1996. Paper, pastel, 24x41 cm Cityscape at the Seine In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, painting depa...

Oval plate. Returning from a Bear Hunt. 19th Century. Porcelain, 4,5x39,5x26 cm

Consolation. 2020., canvas, pastel, 55,5x31 cm Composition with figures

By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal

Last Autumn Dahlias. 2006, paper, author's technique, 58x73 cm Still life with flowers in a vase Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural c...

South. 1993, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm Roman Lapp (1961. 24. VII Moscow) – painter Artist learned drawing to M. Zuhovickis. He graduated Art Academy of Latvia, department of monumen...

Human touch XIV. 2019. Acrylic on paper, 17x16 cm Irina Spakova, Riga based artist from Latvia (1987). She holds Ba & Ma degrees in Visual Arts, took p...

Silence. Paper, mixed media, 70x100 cm Abstract composition

Composition with figures. 1968. Paper, pencil, 35x24.5 cm Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family. Vladimir Glushenkov...

Red forest. 2014, oil on canvas, 40x30 cm Fantasy forest with white trees Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983...

Valencia. 2003, pastel on paper, 17x19 cm Colorful, bright abstract summer landscape Gunta Liepina Griva Born 1942 in Riga, Latvia 1961 – Graduated from...

After sunset. 2002, oil on canvas and cardboard, 50x70 cm Bright, colorful landscape with the river Valdis Bush (1924-2014) studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his ...

Ruby. 2014, oil on canvas 130 x 130 cm Large size painting in red colors Alyona Prokofyeva (1988) From 2016 surname Galaktionova. Alyona graduated Riga art sc...

Russian love. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent painters in Latvia Born in Riga, La...

Silence. Cardboard, acrylic, 60x70 cm Abstract composition