do pobrania - Geringer de Oedenberg, Lidia
do pobrania - Geringer de Oedenberg, Lidia
do pobrania - Geringer de Oedenberg, Lidia
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Līga PURMALE<br />
Born in 1948 in Latvian. Painter.<br />
She currently lives and works in Riga.<br />
Education<br />
Gar<strong>de</strong>n I (Berries) - 2002<br />
140 x 100 cm<br />
At a young age she moved to Riga from the Latvian countrysi<strong>de</strong> to study painting, first at the Jānis Rozentāls Art High School<br />
and then at the Latvian Aca<strong>de</strong>my of Art.<br />
Career<br />
In the 1970s she and Miervaldis Polis started a new trend of photorealism in Latvian painting. Although painting is the<br />
primary field of the artist’s creative activity; she has practiced also graphics and stage <strong>de</strong>sign. Līga Purmalewas was stage<br />
<strong>de</strong>signer for Petr Tchaikovsky’s ballet «Swan Lake» (2002) and A<strong>do</strong>lphe Adam’s ballet «Le Corsaire» (2003) at the Latvian<br />
National Opera.<br />
Līga Purmale’s works are inclu<strong>de</strong>d in the collections of the State Museum of Art (Riga), the Artists’ Union of Latvia Museum<br />
(Riga), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the KIāvs Sīpoliņš Foundation (Canada), Ainars Gulbis privat collection and<br />
other private collections in Latvia and abroad, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (USA).<br />
Exhibitions: «Variation on a theme», «A diary of a passer-by», «One summer»<br />
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