LATVIAN ART SCIENTISTS

© Latvian Academy of Sciences, 2001

Last updated: September, 2003

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Kristiana ABELE, Dr.art.

Main interests:

Art Science
        - art of Latvia: aspects of typology, style and historical experience
        - development of Latvian art of the late 19th and 20th centuries  

• K.Abele. Revealing a Hidden Life - Landscape as a Visual Metaphor in Latvian Art of the early 20th Century. - Koht ja Paik. Place and Location II / Ed. by Virve Sarapik, Kadri Tuur,Mari Laanemets/, Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, 2002, pp. 201-214.  

Born:

Institute of the History of Art,
Art Academy of Latvia    
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 7227852. Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: art@lza.lv

Ruta CAUPOVA, Dr.art.

Art Science
       - art of Latvia: aspects of typology, style and historical experience
          - Latvian visual (plastic) art in the European context

• R.Caupova. Conceptsand motifs of Lansdscape in Contemporary Latvian Sculpture. -   Koht ja Paik. Place and Location II / Ed. by Virve Sarapik, Kadri Tuur,Mari Laanemets/, Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, 2002, pp.227-239.

Born: 1939, Daugavpils, Latvia

Institute of the History of Art,
Art Academy of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 7227852. Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: art@lza.lv

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Art Science
        - history and theory of Latvian art

• E.Grosmane. Kurzemes baroka telnieciba (Die Barockskulptur im Kurzeme), Riga: Jumava, 2002.(in Latvian).
• E.Grosmane. Die Illustrationen der lettischen Gesangbücher des 18. Jahrhundeerts als emblematisches Phanomen. - In: Polyvalenund Multifunktionalität der Emblematik: Akten des 5. Internationalen Kongresses der Society for Emblem Studies / Hg.von W.Harms und D.Peil, unter Mitarbeit von M.Waltenberger/, Frankfurt a. M., etc.: Lang, 2002, Teil I. - S. 173-185.(= Mikrokosmos: Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung, Bd. 65).

Born: 1949, Riga, Latvia

Institute of the History of Art,
Art Academy of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 7227852. Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: elita_grosmane@tvnet.lv

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Viktors HAUSMANIS, Dr.habil.philol.

• Literary Reviews
• Art Science

    - history of Latvian theatre and drama in exile

• V.Hausmanis. Martins Ziverts, 2003, Riga: Zinatne, 230 pp. (in Latvian).

Born: 1931, Jelgava, Latvia

Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art
University of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 5834090. Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: litfom@lza.lv

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Art Science
        - regional heritage of Latvian art and architecture

• R. Kaminska. The painting of Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of aglona in the Context of Latvia's Sacral Art Heritage. - In: Sacred Art Heritage: Investigations, Conservation and Restoration, Vilnius, 2002,  pp. 77-83.

Born: 1950, Riga, Latvia

Institute of the History of Art,
Art Academy of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: + 371 7227852. Fax: + 371 7229017.
E-mail: art@lza.lv

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Art Science
    - history and theory of Latvian art

• E.Klavins. Die Malerei des Barock als eine Quelle der Inspiration. Zur Frage der Enstehung des lettischen Modernismus um 1915. -  Homburger Gespräch. 2000, Bad Homburg.

Born: 1937, Leningrad, Russia

Art Academy of Latvia
Kalpaka bulv. 13, Riga, LV 1867, Latvia

Phone: +371 7332202. Fax: +371 7228963.
E-mail: lma@latnet.lv

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Arnolds KLOTINS, Dr.art.

Art Science
        - Latvian musicians

• A.Klotins. Alfreds Kalnins and National Opera of Latvia, 1999, Riga, 24 pp. (in Latvian).
• A.Klotins. The Latvian Neo-folklore Movement and the Political Change of the Late 20th Century. - The World of Music, 2002, vol.44, N 3, pp. 107-130.

Born: 1934, Riga, Latvia

Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art    
University of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 7229017. Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: zaneta@rec.lv

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Art Science
        - art of Latvia: aspects of typology, style and historical experience
        - development of Latvian artof the late 19th and 20th centuries  

• S.Pelse. Art Subverting Globalization- Critical or Conservative? -  Mare Articum: the Baltic Art Magazine, 2002, N.1(10), pp. 17-26.  

Institute of the History of Art,
Art Academy of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 7227852. Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: art@lza.lv

Guna ZELTINA, Dr.art.

History of Art
        - Latvian theatre in the cultural space of Baltic region

• G.Zeltina. Latvian Theatre in Search of National Singularity, 2000, Riga:Zinatne, 205 pp. (in Latvian).
• G.Zeltina. Return of national drama. - The World of the Theatre, 2000-2002, Berlin, Bangladesh, 2002, pp. 220-224. 

Born: 1950, Madona district, Latvia

Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art
University of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050 , Latvia

Phone/ Fax: +371 7229017.
E-mail: litfom@lza.lv

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Art Science
        - cultural history of Latvia -   architectonical and historical research 

• J.Zilgalvis. Old Town.Ring of Boulevards. Art Nouveau Centre.- Latvia Baltic State, 2002, N1/2.
• J.Zilgalvis. Pearls of Latvia. Guidebook of 40 Latvian Castles and Manors, 2000, Riga, 288 pp. (in Latvian).

Born: 1955, Riga, Latvia

Institute of the History of Art,
Art Academy of Latvia
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia

Phone: +371 7227852. Fax: +371 7227852.
E-mail: arhitektura@vkpai.gov.lv

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