Jēkabs Kazaks
Painting, Visual Artist
1895 – 1920
Who was Jēkabs Kazaks?
Jekabs Kazaks was born on February 18, 1895 in Riga. He studied at the Riga City Art School between 1913 and 1915 and the Penza Art School during World War I,. Like many Latvian modernists, his formal artistic training and the choice of his most compelling subjects derived from his experience as a refugee during World War I. Kazaks style contained elements of Impressionism, West European Old Masters, modern French painters and early 20th century Latvian Modernism. He was also profoundly inspired by the series of paintings of his fellow countryman Jazeps Grosvalds, bringing to these themes his own intimist painter's sensitivity. He used his influences and interests to create a personal style characterised by expressiveness, simplicity, synthesis and distortion of forms. He was involved in the formation of the Expressionists' Group in 1919 and then the Riga Artists' Group as its theoretician and first chairman.
Several of his major works portray the everyday life of refugees, he also painted portraits and self-portraits. His medium was conditional colour pattern in oil and water colour which he augmented with various graphic techniques.
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- Born
- Feb 18, 1895
Riga - Also known as
- Jekabs Kazaks
- Died
- Nov 30, 1920
Riga
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on July 23, 2013
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