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Adam
Ivanovich Alksnis (Alksne)

Russia • 1864−1897

Biography and information

(1864.10.March in Latvia-1897.21.March in Riga,Latvia), painter.

Born in a peasant family, he studied German at the Riga craft school in St. Petersburg Academy of arts in the class of battle painting (1883 – 92), where he received the name of the artist 3.extent, returned to Latvia.

At exhibitions participated since 1883.g.

Show students a vocational school in 1883.g.

Ethnographic exhibition of Latvian artists in Riga 1896.g.

Commemorative exhibition in Riga 1925., 1947., 1964.g.

The artist died at a very young age, why I left the artistic legacy is only a set of drawings, watercolours and some oil paintings. An important place in his art the image of a Latvian peasant, and the ancient history of Latvia, the people's mythology.

References:"Māksla un arhitektūra biogrāfijās", 1. is. - R.: "Latvian encyclopedia", 1995.,- G. Tydeman, 19.p.

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