| ISSN | 1691-0869 |
Makslas Vesture un Teorija
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Institute of Art History of the Latvian Academy of Art and Art History Research Support Foundation
Institute of Art History of the Latvian Academy of Art and Art History Research Support Foundation
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Publication languages:
English
Data set: CEJSH
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Makslas Vesture un Teorija > 2016 > 19 > 32-47
The aim of this article is to introduce the reader to the residential houses designed by Aleksandrs Vanags (1873–1919) in the style of Nordic National Romanticism, looking at not just the textbook examples but also at less well known buildings. Vanags has left a considerable legacy in the architecture of Latvia. Some one hundred buildings were constructed after his designs during the peak of his activity...
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Makslas Vesture un Teorija > 2016 > 19 > 48-62
In autumn 1911, Alice Dmitrijew (1876–1945) showed her decorative, stylised colour woodcuts for the first time to the public of her native Riga at the 2nd exhibition of the Baltic Artists’ Association in the Riga Art Society premises. Existing publications, mainly artists’ dictionaries, provide very little information on her biography, largely containing birth and death years, some facts and short...
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Makslas Vesture un Teorija > 2016 > 19 > 63-71
In autumn 2015, while visiting retired professor of architecture Georg Solms in Marburg (Germany), a number of unknown or completely forgotten works by the Valmiera-based harsh symbolist Teodors Ūders (1868–1915) came to light. There were 16 works in all by this artist known as the ‘great stranger’ and ‘epic portrayer of the peasant theme in Latvian graphic art’ – twelve oval copies in pastel, three...
