Anšlavs Eglītis

Anšlavs Eglītis was born in Riga on 14 October 1906, the son of the writer Viktors Eglītis and the translator Marija Stalbova, and spent the First World War in Russia with his family. A pupil of the painter Voldemārs Tone, a graduate of the Art Academy of Latvia in 1935, he taught drawing, married the painter Veronika Janelsiņa on 31 December 1941 and left for Germany in the autumn of 1944. Having arrived in the United States in 1950, he wrote the film column of the newspaper Laiks and died in Los Angeles on 4 March 1993.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelHomo novusAnšlavs Eglītis · 1943not translated into EnglishLiterature