Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš

Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš was born on 25 August 1877 in Krodziņi, in the parish of Nereta, in Selonia, into a family of farmhands, and lost his father at the age of three. After the schools of Nereta and an agricultural school, he studied painting at the Blūms school in Riga, then in Munich and Berlin under Lovis Corinth. A painter of landscapes and portraits, a pioneer of children's illustration, he spent the war in Baku, published Baltā grāmata in 1914, left Latvia in 1944 and died in Körbecke, in Westphalia, in August 1962; he was reburied in Ķiķuži in 1997.

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• NovelAijaJānis Jaunsudrabiņš · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature