Biography and information
Edit(1915.10.December in the East of Latvia – 1968.21.November in Riga), painter.
Born in the family of Barber.
Graduated from Latvian Academy of arts, Studio of Landscape painting of V. Purvitis (thesis "the Thaw", 1944)
At exhibitions participated since 1943
Personal exhibition in Riga in 1944
Commemorative exhibition on Kazan 1964
Krāslava 1970, 1985
Dagda 1986
Member of the Union of artists since 1946
A diverse artist who worked in almost all genres, mainly in oil and watercolour.
A great master of psychological portrait, a lot of this genre was in the late 1950s, portraying many prominent Latvian and foreign cultural workers. The scenery is very lyrical, picturesque. But he also wrote the sea and the sketches of the old town.