Monday, January 27, 2025

 Vilhelms Purvītis
(1872 - 1945)
 
Vilhelms Purvītis  was a landscape painter and educator who founded the Latvian Academy of Art and was its rector from 1919 to 1934.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelms_Purvītis


Ziema (Winter)
1910
Oil on cardboard
71.3 x 101.8 cm
Latvian National Museum, Riga
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