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GEDERTS ELIASS' INTRODUCTIONS TO BOOKS 'FRENCH CONTEMPORARY PAINTING' AND 'THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF LATVIAN SSR ACADEMY OF ART'. PRINTED TEXT AND LECTURER'S FORTUNE AT THE ACADEMY OF ART AT THE CHANGE OF OCCUPATIONAL POWERS (Gederta Eliasa ievadi gram

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Kalnacs J.
Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei
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2006
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vol. 5
134-155
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Two publications of the so-called Year of Horror - Gederts Eliass' and Kristaps Eliass' 'French Contemporary Painting' (Francu jaunlaiku gleznieciba, 1940 or 1941) and 'The 20th Anniversary of Latvian SSR Academy of Art. 1919-1940' (Latvijas PSR Makslas akademijas 20 gadi. 1919-1940, 1941) - are a significant part of Latvian art literature that have long become bibliographical rarities. This was conditioned by the biases of occupational powers because Nazis withdrew these books from sale; they were completed before Soviet occupation but contained lip-services to the Soviet power. Without introductions by Gederts Eliass who had supported social democratic ideas in his youth none of the books probably would have been printed. At the Latvian State Archive and the Latvian State History Archive there are quite comprehensive documents on the dismissal of professor Gederts Eliass, the last member of the Riga Artists' Group, who worked at the Latvian Academy of Art after the change of occupational powers. The process of dismissal was started in September 1941 and completed in February 1942. These documents clearly demonstrate the mechanism how cultural and educational institutions got rid of 'persons politically exposed during the Bolshevik period'. The board of the Latvian Academy of Art participated in the process initiated by the institutions of Nazi occupation and Latvian self-government. Important arguments in this case were the above-mentioned introductions by Gederts Eliass.
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Jēkaba Strazdiņa un viņa mākslas kolekcijas liktenis padomju Latvijā

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Kalnačs J.
Makslas Vesture un Teorija
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2019
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vol. 22
59-75
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Painter and art critic Jēkabs Strazdiņš’ (1905–1958) art collection that he gathered from the last pre-war years until his arrest in 1949, included more than 370 works by Latvian artists of the 19th–20th century. The oldest pieces were prints by Oto Bērtiņš and Augusts Daugulis, drawings by Kārlis Hūns, paintings by Arturs Baumanis and Jūlijs Feders along with more works by the former students’ group Rūķis members – Ādams Alksnis, Vilhelms Purvītis, Janis Rozentāls and Johann Walter. Also included were some paintings by the Riga Artists’ Group modernists alongside a large number of paintings, sketches and graphic works by the artist’s contemporaries and even quite a few sculptures complemented by Russian, German, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, English, Polish, Lithuanian and Estonian artists’ paintings, graphic works, applied art items and old books. Strazdiņš, a docent at the Latvian SSR Academy of Art and the University of Latvia, was arrested together with his wife in March 1949. Like many inhabitants of Latvia, he was charged with counterrevolutionary activity according to the then oft-used article 58 of the RSFSR criminal code. After Strazdiņš’ arrest, his belongings, including some 275 artworks, were confiscated and the Finance Department of the Riga City Stalin District handed them over to the State Latvian and Russian Art Museum (now Latvian National Museum of Art). About a quarter of these works were deemed to be of little value and sold. Strazdiņš’ own works ended up in the State Latvian and Russian Art Museum in a similar way. Part of his property – paintings, prints, crockery, furniture and several hundreds of books – were given to the then State Western European Art Museum (now the Art Museum Riga Bourse). After Joseph Stalin’s death, Strazdiņš’ sentence was reviewed and only in spring 1956 it was reduced to the time already served. Because of poor health, the artist returned to Riga already in 1954 and tried to rejoin artistic life but died in 1958. He managed to regain his works and the greater part of this art collection before death.
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