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 | Ludolfs Liberts |
| Time period | 20th century 50's |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Technique | Canvas, oil |
| Size | 50x61 cm |
| Item location | 7 Vesetas str., Riga, Latvia |
| Price | € 1800 |
| Article | 39_A28091 |
| Status | Lot available for bidding |
Painter, scenic designer, very important personality in Latvian culture.
Ludolfs Liberts attended J. Madernieks studio, learned in the sculpture section of Strogonov’s art school (1911.-1912.). 1915 he graduated from the School of Art in Kazan (taught by the artist Nikolay Fesin) and in that time worked as a decorator at the Opera in Kazan.
He took part at the 1st World War as an artillerist and received awards about his merits at the battleground. In 1921, he returns to Latvia and restarts painting.
The artist was teaching at the Latvian Art Academy (1923 – 32), he was in charge of the Figurative painting studio (1942 – 44).
1924. – 1937. – he worked as a decorator and director at the National Opera and National Theatre and also as a guest director and decorator in Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
L. Liberts was a member of Riga artists’ group and artists’ society “Sadarbs” (1924 – 39).
He took part in exhibitions since 1914. His works were exhibited also abroad. Solo exhibitions were organized in Riga (1923, together with K. Ubāns, 1934, 1938), Paris (1927), Brussels (1929), Berlin (1934, 1938) and Stockholm (1938).
In the thirties, the artist made sketches to porcelain and faience paintings. Some plates were bought for the collection of National Manufactory Museum in Sevr.
1935. – 1940. and 1941. – 1944. he was the director of State Printing House and Mint.
1938. – the artist executes the order of the State President representation interior at Riga Castle.
In 1944, Liberts emigrated first to Austria, after the war to Germany, and was a teacher at Latvian art school. In this period, he painted with tempera and published the album “European symphony” with tempera paintings (by J. E. Shuler, 1947. in the German and English languages, Stuttgart).
Liberts was awarded at international exhibitions in Paris (1931) and Barcelona (1939, Gold medal). He got scholarships and prizes of Latvia Culture foundation (1923, 1924, 1927). Artist also was awarded with Culture foundation of American Latvian association honour prize (1952).
The artist painted European cities – Venice, Paris (also at night time), and landscapes of Latvia. He also worked in figurative genre, made portraits and sometimes decorative paintings.
