Latvia - Art

On the waterfront. Paper, watercolor, 60x80 cm Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1957). She continued he...

Flowers in a vase 2010, cardboard, oil, 64x46 cm

Jānis Saulriets 1918 - 1993 Spring has come again with blue primroses, blue purslanes and golden dandelions. Water in the rivers and streams is gurgling happily. The morning breeze g...

Caprices. Paper, etching, 15.5x10.5 cm "Caprices" is an etching artwork on paper that presents a series of whimsical and imaginative scenes or subjects. Through the intricate lines...

Lakeside. 1959, oil on cardboard, 36x49,5 cm Summer landscape by the lake Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints ...

Spruce. 1967, paper, etching, 18x9 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947,...

Girls and vine. 2021. Oil on canvas, 82x79 cm Normunds Braslinsh (1962) Born 1962 in Riga, Latvia 1980–1986 Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department 1973–1980 Janis Rozentāls Riga Secondary School of Art Has participated in photo exhibitions since 2002 A professional photographer for art editions since 1989 Has participated in exhibitions since 1980 Pedagogical Experience Since 2004 Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art 1998 Associate Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art Since 1997 a teacher at the Master Studio of Figurative Painting, Latvian Academy of Art Since 1988 a teacher at the Drawing Department, Latvian Academy of Art Solo exhibitions 2008 Normunds Brasliņš...

Country farm at winter Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 52x70 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts...

Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...

This vibrant oil painting is an evocative landscape painting titled Blooming garden created by the internationally registered artist Elena Lukina in 2013.Notably, this original artwo...

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Landscape. 1990. Oil on cardboard, 24x32,5 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seas...

Blooming trees. 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 80x100 cm

Window. Oil on canvas, 80x120 cm Elga Grinvalde ”ellgrii” Born in Valka (Latvia) 1966 Education: 1982-1986 Riga Applied Art College,Latvia department of glasswork desig. 1994-1998...

Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...

This striking artwork presents a central figure enveloped in a richly decorated cloak. The garment is adorned with vivid geometric patterns in bold red and blue, creating a striking ...

Sunset. Oil on canvas, 50X80 cm Sunset in warm orange colors The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also...

Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...

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...

Summer. Paper, etching, 10/50., 31x41 cm Josif Elgurt (1924-2007) Born in 1924 in Kishinev in Romania. In 1947 resumed his art studies in Kishinev. Since 1952 he has lived in Riga ...

Paris, place de la Madeleine. 1955, oil on canvas, 46x55 cm Paris landscape Merio Ameglio (1897-1970) Born in San Remo, Italy along the Mediterranean Sea, Mario Amegilo painted m...

City 14. 1964, monotype, 47x62 cm Soikans Nikolay, pseudonym Niklo de Martell (till 1953.) 1926. 9 IX Ludza – 1980. 21 II Lester, Great Britain – graphic artist. He was born at ...

Glass sculpture Merkuce from the series The Italians 2008, glass, 37, 5x11x10 cm

In this oil painting, I've captured the transient beauty of blossoms, conveying a blend of vitality and tenderness. My brushstrokes reflect the impressionism's play with light and ex...

Fountain view. Tuileries garden. Paris. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 30x40 cm Summer day at Tuileries garden. People sitting around fountain Ingrida Irbe (...

Lija Būmane (1940–1990) – painter, art teacher, book illustrator. Participated in exhibitions since 1966.

Landscape with herd Oil on canvas. 60x80 cm

"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 200+ pictures)   paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...

In creating this piece, I immersed myself in the visceral emotions that follow a tempest's passing—relief, contemplation, and a sense of renewal. I chose a blend of acrylics and oils...

"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 200+ pictures)   paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...

A monumental 100x120 cm abstract work that serves as a powerful meditation on the nature of light. A brilliant, vibrating core of gold and ochre emerges from a deep, textured abyss, ...

"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 200+ pictures)   paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...

Amata river in spring. 2024., oil on canvas, 70x90 cm "I like to observe nature, animals, birds, landscapes. I depict my observations in paintings. Painting helps me to see, feel an...

Caesar on his way to Pompeii. 1999, canvas, oil, 40x50 cm

Pont Neuf Paris. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 24x50 cm Landscape with the bridge in Paris Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga Education:...

Adolfs Melnars (till 1940 – Adolfs Maslovskis) (1908.4.III – 1963.31.X) attended studio of K. Miesnieks (1928), studied in Latvia Art academy (1930 – 39) and graduated studio of G. ...

Juris Zvirbulis was born in 1944 in Riga. 1970 graduated from the Riga Secondary School of Applied Arts decorators department. 1971 Member Artists' Union of the Latvia. In 1971 F...

Kristaps Zarins’ painting always addresses the viewer with a form based on the reality – a figure, turn of the head, facial expression and body posture, richness of colors and artist...

"Sundays Market", Emil Barbarini (1855-1930), The end of 19 century, oil on the wood, 36x57 cm. Signed with the pseudo "E.Rovier" Emil Barbarini (1855-...

This work by Ingrida Irve makes us travel to Latvian fields around midsummer, where poppies are dominating the color palette. Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga ...

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...

"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 200+ pictures)   paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...

Flowers of life. Bilateral. Oil on cardboard, 73x65 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad Sch...

Old town . Oil on cardboard 47,x68 cm. Leonids Maurins (1934-2012) From 1954 to 1961 studied at J. Rozentāls Riga Art School From 1961 to 1969 studied at the Art Academy of Latvia, Pedagogical Department. 1969 - work as tutor at evening courses at the Chair of design, Latvian Academy of Arts. 1969 - first participation in an exhibition of Republican (7th Exhibition of Young Artists in Riga). From 1969 to 1970 - execution of the artist`s first monumental decorative painting for cafe "Allegro". 1975 - participation in the exhibition of young artists in Dzintari, Exhibition Hall (G. Liepina, L. Maurins, B. Vasilevskis, M. Tabaka). 1976 - the artist was accepted as member of the Latvian Artists...

Dailis Rožlapa (1932-2014) Near Slita, cardboard/oil, 65x85cm, 1985

Vimba Voldemars ( 1904 St. Petersburg – 1985 Riga, Latvia) He began his artistic education at the St Petersburg’s Central technical drawing school. From 1923 to 1933 completed Figu...

Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the fee...

Reflections on the ballet. 1970, canvas, cardboard, oil, 60x80 cm Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the ...

Still life with flowers oil/cardboard, 51x40 cm

Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV – 1991.11.I) Alfej Bromults received his first professional education at Tautas University under R. Suta, J. Bīne and G. Šķilters. From 1938 he studied in...

Flowers in a vase. Cardboard, oil, 27x21 cm

Mood, canvas/oil, 51x46.5 cm, 2000

Vilnis Sausserdis Children at play, oil/canvas, 108x128 cm

Still life with Chinese vase. 2020. Oil on canvas, 60x40 cm

Wings. 1975., Woodcut, 70x50 cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publications. The main directions of Rožkalns' professiona...

Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...

Dahlias. 2009, oil on canvas, 92x70 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons and ...

Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...

After the storm. Watercolor, paper, 70 x 96 cm Sea after the storm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collec...

In this painting, I captured the vibrant energy of a sunlit vineyard at dawn, blending impressionism and realism to evoke warmth and renewal. The golden hues reflect the morning ligh...