AUCTION No. 39 IN RIETUMU CAPITAL CENTER! The auction house “Artembassy” is organizing the biggest artwork auction in the Baltics! The auction will take place quite soon – on May 25 of this year, at 12.00 o’clock at the premises of Rietumu Banka in Vesetas street 7. 323 outstanding works of art that are not available in the art market every day will be offered in this great auction. Participants of the auction will have the possibility to purchase such pearls of Latvian painting as the works of Sigismunds Vidbergs, Niklavs Strunke, Johans Valters, Voldemārs Irbe, Jānis Ferdinands Tīdemanis, Ludolfs Liberts, Valdis Kalnroze, Eduards Kalniņš, Leo Kokle, Leo Svemps, Jānis Pauļuks, Herberts Siliņš, Miervaldis Polis and other outstanding Latvian artists. The European and Russian artwork section will feature for offer such names as Konstantin Visotsky, Julius von Klever , Sergey Vinogradovi, Sergey Gerasimov, Alexander Rubcov. The section of applied arts will be widely represented as well, offering distinguished antiques - jewellery, silver, gold, bronze and porcelain items. The works put up for auction will be available for viewing from May 13 to 25 at the premises of Rietumu Banka. The auction will provide bidding onsite, bidding online, remote bidding and bidding on the phone. The auction will be broadcasted as online video stream. pdf. catalogue: https://www.artembassy.lv/upload_file/Artembassy_i39_RB-25-05-2019_2.pdf
| Author | Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis |
| Time period | 20th century 40's |
| Genre | Portrait |
| Technique | Canvas, oil |
| Size | 60x50 cm |
| Item location | 7 Vesetas str., Riga, Latvia |
| Price | € 3000 |
| Article | 39_A27638 |
| Status | Lot available for bidding |
At the age of 14 Janis Tidemanis as a ship boy went to Arhangelsk, and after that to the USA, where he learned in New York and Cleveland schools of art for a while (in Cleveland two years (since 1912) he learned with the Professor Nagi).
In 1920 he returned to Latvia, Riga.
In 1922, the artist went to Belgium together with his wife. He graduated from the Royal Art Academy of Antwerp (1927) and achieved a portrait and figurative compositions painter degree with his diploma work “Sad”. Tidemanis improved his skills at the Highest Art Institute of Antwerp with I. Opsomer, and at the same time he also mastered ofort technique.
His paintings were strongly influenced by Opsomer and Ensor.
In 1936, artist returned to Riga.
In 1944, he emigrated to Germany, after that to Switzerland, in 1948 – to Montreal, Canada, but in 1953 – he moved to Toronto.
Tidemanis took part in exhibitions since 1928. Solo exhibitions were organized in Riga (1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938), Antwerp (1931, 1932, 1936), Kaunas, Paris (both in 1931), Tallinn (1936) and Canada. Memorial exhibitions were organized in Toronto (1969), Riga (1982, 1997) and Valmiera (1987).
The artist painted big cities – Riga, Amsterdam, Brussels, port views, carnivals, MARKETS, views of inns, portraits, nudes and still life.
He got 1st prize in Belgium (exposition of 10th Olympic games in Los Angeles), for his work “Swimmers over the canal” in 1932. Tidemanis got a grant in Belgium’s jubilee (100 years) exhibition for painting “Spring” in 1934. He fitted out Latvian pavilion in the World exhibition of household achievements, and got Grand Prix diploma for wall paintings in 1935. The artist was awarded with Belgium king’s Leopold II order in 1936.
