Jāzeps Grosvalds (1891–1920) is regarded as the founder of modernism in Latvian art, who successfully blended the European and the national in his art. The foundation of the exhibition are the compositions by Jázep Grosvald from the “Archers” and “Oriental” sequence produced during the To start with World War, which are in the collection of the Värmlands Museum. In the course of the Next Globe War, these will work went to Sweden, where by the sisters of Jázep Groswald emigrated. In the late 1970s, her sister Margareta Groswalde, who was in demand of heritage conservation, donated 221 operates by Jázep Groswalde to the Vermland Museum.
Jázeps Grosvalds – a wild man of the Uhlan regiment. 1912. Black and white pictures. Not known writer.
Image: LNMM Jázeps Grosvalda Commemorative Assortment
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The exhibition is complemented by 19 will work of artwork and objects from the collection of the Latvian Nationwide Artwork Museum (LNMM), such as the paintings “Portrait of Mērija Grīnberga” (1913), “Parisian Night time” (1913–1914), ” Rīga. Theater Boulevard “(1913),” Self-Portrait “(1915),” Baghdad Marketplace “(1919), as effectively as various watercolors and drawings. In addition, some objects belonging to the artist, which are stored in the Jāzeps Grosvalds commemorative selection of the Latvian Nationwide Artwork Museum, went to the Vermland Museum: a notebook in Persian language, a travel box and many others.
Jázeps Grosvalds “Kermanshah” (1916-1920)
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“The exhibition permits us to retrace the younger man’s tortuous journey as a result of the extraordinary yrs of the First Earth War, which interrupted Groswald’s carefree everyday living as a dandy among Paris, Riga and other European metropolises. Throughout his navy company as a cavalry officer in the Tukuma Regiment of Latvian fusiliers, he painted a collection of finely shaded watercolors and gouaches in his leisure is effective depicting lifetime on the front line and the day by day life of riflemen in camps, shelters and trenches, “defined LNMM. “Soon after the Russian Revolution, Groswald joined the British military expedition to the Middle East. The journey led from Baghdad throughout the Persian highlands to the Caspian Sea. There, the young artist encountered not only the splendor of the East, which he experienced constantly dreamed of. , but also poverty, starvation and struggling, in front of the community inhabitants, he recorded with a brush or a pencil everything that lived in Mesopotamia and Persia and soon after the war he returned to Europe with hundreds of will work of artwork in his luggage, lots of of which are now saved in the Vermland Museum. “
Picture: Normunds Brasliņš / LNMM collection
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The life of the extraordinary artist ended significantly less than a 12 months immediately after returning from armed service support in the East, contracting the fatal Spanish flu.
For the first time due to the fact the legacy was introduced to Sweden, the Latvian public got to know the functions of Jāzeps Grosvalds in the collection of the Vermland Museum in 2019, when 21 artifacts from this collection were being on exhibit at the Latvian Countrywide Museum of Artwork in the exhibition “Mary’s journey. The heritage of the Grosvald family”, devoted to the branches of the destinies of the Grosvald relatives. At the second, LNMM is preparing a huge retrospective of Jázep Grosvald, which will take location in the drop of 2023 in the Excellent Corridor of the primary constructing of the museum. It will also deal with aspect of Groswald’s art in Sweden more comprehensively.
Picture: LNMM selection
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Jázeps Grosvalds “Kermanshah” (1916-1920)
Image: Normunds Brasliņš / LNMM assortment
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Photograph: Normunds Brasliņš / LNMM assortment
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The job at the Vermland Museum is the initially this sort of in depth exhibition of Jāzep Grosvald’s performs outside of Latvia. The only exhibition held abroad so considerably is the artist’s commemorative exhibition in Stockholm in 1975, but his is effective have been exhibited in a number of team shows alongside other Latvian modernists in Paris, Moscow, Stockholm, Oslo, London, Berlin , Bordeaux.
The curator of the exhibition is Dan Spegel.
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