He began to write and paint early. After the death of his father, around 1910, the mother with 6 children moved to Vitebsk. In 1920 he and his family returned to Riga.
A. Zardins visited the studio of the Association of Independent Artists, participated in exhibitions of the association (1931, 1933, 1935), but his application to join the association was rejected (1937).
In the late 1930s, the artist settled in a house in Jurmala, where he lived in isolation until the end of his life.
With fanatical stubbornness he drew, wrote, read, wrote a kind of "diary". After World War II A. Zardins often worked hungry and in the cold, without suitable materials. In recent years, it seems, he has been seriously ill.
At the end of 1990. relatives provided the society with the creative heritage of A. Zardins.
Commemorative exhibitions organized in Riga (1998), Wetzlar (Germany) and in Moscow Pushkin Museum (two 1999, one at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin. - in Moscow, July 1999), 2006. in Italy ...
Literature:
“Māksla un arhitektūra biogrāfijās” Atb. red. A. Vanaga - Rīga, 2003 - 4.sej .;
"Adolf Zardins". Catalog. State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin. - Moscow, July 1999 - P .: Neputns, 1999 .;
L. Pestova "Ādolfs Zārdiņš" / "Adolf Zardinsh" - R .: Neputns, 2004.
