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MUSEUM OF FOREIGN ART (Arzemju makslas muzejs)

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Upeniece D.
Makslas Vesture un Teorija
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2005
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vol. 4
56-67
EN
The article introduces the Museum of Foreign Art in Riga, dealing with its history, collections and especially emphasising highlights.
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THE PIEBALGA ART MUSEUM AND FORTUNES OF ITS COLLECTION (Piebalgas makslas muzejs un ta kolekcijas liktenis)

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Kalnacs J.
Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei
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2003
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vol. 3
128-135
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The area of Piebalga is noted by several undertakings significant for the history of Latvian culture and society since the 19th century. The Piebalga Art Museum collection was assembled by the Jaunpiebalga-born painter and art critic Jekabs Strazdins (1905-1958) in the late 1930s. This project was probably supported by the Jaunpiebalga and Vecpiebalga parishes, public and economic organizations, as well as by people of culture. Until 1999 this collection was thought to be lost in the events of the World War II. The collection was formed in a short period, probably mostly during the Nazi occupation that was noted by flourishing art market. Quite often it was possible to acquire good artworks in exchange for countryside foodstuffs. The collection included works of about 100 Latvian painters, graphic artists and sculptors, from the first professional artists to graduates of the Latvian Academy of Art in the 1930s. The Piebalga Art Museum was never actually opened but part of its collection was exhibited in temporary premises at Jaunpiebalga Peteris School during the war. The lack of interest in fortunes of this collection may be related to the fact that many artists suffered from Soviet persecutions or left for Western Europe or Scandinavia. After Strazdins' death in 1958 his collection was not kept up. In September 1999, looking for the lost collection of the Piebalga Art Museum, there was an inspection of an abandoned farmstead at Zoseni Parish where Strazdins' relatives had lived. Not only empty frames but also 6 paintings, 1 watercolour and 1 etching were found there. Most of these works were in a poor technical condition. Three more works that are possibly connected with the Piebalga Art Museum collection were discovered in the next two years. The first works, restored with the support of the Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation, were exhibited in autumn 2000 to become a kind of surprise for the local art society. These eleven works that form about ten percent of the total number of the Piebalga Art Museum collection allow to place it among the most prominent collections of Latvian art.
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Mākslas darbu likteņi Rīgas dzīvokļu „likumīgajā” izlaupīšanā (1944–1948)

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Kalnačs J.
Makslas Vesture un Teorija
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2014
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vol. 17
27-35
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Interest in the events which began in Riga in autumn 1944 still before the end of World War II emerged because the information on some artwork from a private collection many times had come to an end abruptly with the return of the Soviet occupation. As the Red Army approached Latvia in 1944, about one to two hundred thousands of inhabitants left their homeland; they fled both voluntarily, reasonably fearing Soviet repressions, and influenced by the propaganda and coercion of Nazi Germany. Residents left their properties and possessions, ranging from estates and houses to personal belongings, taking only the dearest valuables – children, documents, jewellery and sometimes also artworks. Many would have heard a sad story about great grandparents or more distant relatives who had their apartment in Riga, a house in some Latvian town or a farmstead in the countryside which had been abandoned as the frontline approached; when they returned after some time, most valuable things were missing or the property had been badly looted. A separate story concerns the plundering by discharged Soviet soldiers, former partisans and runaways in Riga who looted the ‘socialist property’ and damaged ‘the Soviet authority’; in some cases they got sentenced. But this article is focused on what happened on a perfectly legal basis in Latvia under the Soviet occupation to belongings, including artworks, left in Riga’s apartments in the last war months and first post-war years. It is an attempt to understand how the Soviet authorities took over Rigans’ apartments and to follow the destinies of belongings from some residences. Laws and regulations of the USSR strictly determined what should be done in the reoccupied Latvia and in what manner. Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic arrested the possessions of 11 300 persons as unclaimed property worth of 30 millions of roubles; Rigans’ property was assessed at 24 millions. There were about fifteen thousands of apartments arrested as unclaimed property in Riga alone. The process of its ‘realisation’, whose deadlines in 1945 and 1946 were postponed mostly because of the large amount of work, dragged on till 1948, actually merging with the confiscation and realisation of the properties whose owners were deported in spring 1949.
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Makslas muzejs ‘Rigas birza’

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Upeniece D.
Makslas Vesture un Teorija
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2012
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vol. 15
34-39
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The lavishly illustrated article introduces the newly restored building of the former Riga Bourse, transformed into a museum of foreign art and opened in August 2011. Collections of the Art Museum ‘Riga Bourse’ are based on the private gatherings of several 19th century art collectors, and their display in the magnificent Venetian-style building is mapped in the publication. Expositions include Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German and French painting, several pieces of sculpture, a rich collection of porcelain, silver items, artefacts from China, Japan, India and Egypt.
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