Theodore Grinbergs (Zalkalns) (1876-1972)

Theodore Greenberg (Theodore Zalkalns). Zalkalns stdied in Allazu church school, and in the the Riga City High School. In 1893, he joined Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing St. Petersburg (finished in 1899, together with Gustavs Skilters), where specialized in decorative painting and etching. After learning Zalkalns went study to Munich, then to Paris with the aim to replenish in the decorative painting. Zalkalns has visited many museums and special attention has give to Egyptian stone sculptures. Returned to St. Petersburg, Zalkalns has worked in K. Fabergé jewelery company, which consisted of patterns of human and animal figurines. In 1903 Zaļkalns moved to Yekaterinburg, where he worked as an art teacher. In parallel, he also formed the importer and statuary. Lived in St. Petersburg, wored in Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing as a teacher (1918-1919).
From 1944 to 1958 Zalkalns worked as a professor and head of the Sculpture Department of the Latvian Art Academy.