Juris
Soikan

(1920.12.IV Ludza – 1995.15.XI.Riga)

Born in the family of an employee of Ludza municipality Tupa of Aikansa. His brother is known for chart – Nicolai Soikans.

1940.g. prior to 1944.years studied painting at the Latvian Academy of Arts at teachers A. annus, L. Simpe, V. Tonya K. Miesnieks. 1945.g. up to 1990. he lived and worked in Germany since 1990.g. - 1995. years lectured in universities in Riga for "Cybernetic aesthetics".

A very versatile artist. Worked in different visual styles, writing criticism and essays on art. 1950.g. up to the 1960s. year rushed in the oil painting to the aesthetics of geometric constructivism. 1966.g. up to 1982. years waved the theory of cybernetic aesthetics as a pedagogical model to teach art lessons and popularized it. From about 1972. began the rush to the techniques of modernism to based natural styling and believing that this reflects cybernetic aesthetics, calling it "Magical realism". 1972. participated in a Dortmund-based group of artists in Germany.

Part in exhibitions since 1942.year. Participated exemplary in 260 exhibitions (solo exhibitions – 54)- in the United States (16) England (9), Austria (2) Australia (3), Czech Republic (1) Denmark (3) France (3) Netherlands (4) Italy (11) Canada (11), Latvia (12), USSR (3), Spain (1) Switzerland (1), in Tasmania (1), Hungary (1) Germany (148), Vatican (1) and Sweden (7).

Approximate 250 publications on matters of art in the German and Latvian foreign press.

Approximate 250 publications on matters of art in the German and Latvian foreign press.

Reward. 1949. the winner of the Foundation of General K. Hopper in the chart (USA), 1952. the scholarship of Pope, 1958. award of the cultural Foundation of ALA for the exhibition "Under strange skies" (USA), 1973. the winner of the Foundation of Professor R. Zarinsh for exlib (USA), 1979. the winner of the Foundation biskupa J. Rencana painting (Canada), 1979. member of the Academy of Italy, 1981. winner of the "РВLA RF" for painting and pedagogy (USA), 1982. the winner of the Foundation A. Urga in graphics and painting (Germany), 1987. the winner of the "ALKA" in the sacred art (USA), 1991. honorary doctor of the MOUTH .

A work is in the German, Swiss, brown Swiss and Latvian art museums and in private collections.