Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
People's artist of USSR (1977), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of arts (1975), laureate of the State prize of the Latvian SSR, Professor.
Graduated from Riga Academy of arts (1956), 1960 and taught there from 1973 Professor, 1974-76 Chancellor. Ist. and genre scenes, "the Men return" (1957), "Calloused hands" (1962), "Immortality" (1968), "the Fisherman of the river Daugava" (1980), etc.