The Art Academy of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija) is an institution of

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after comple ...

and

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art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

, located in Riga, Latvia. The neo-Gothic brick building is located on

Krišjānis Valdemārs Krišjānis Valdemārs (in Germanized spelling as Christian Waldemar or Woldemar) (2 December 1825 at Vecjunkuri in Ārlava parish (now Valdgale parish, Courland, Latvia) – 7 December 1891 in Moscow, Russia) was a writer, editor, educator, poli ...

Street, next to the National Museum of Art.

Organization

Faculties

The Academy has 5 faculties: * Faculty of Visual Arts (2D) :* Department of Painting :* Department of Graphic Art :* Department of Textile Art :* Department of Drawing * Faculty of Visual Plastic Arts (3D) :* Department of Sculpture :* Department of Ceramics :* Department of Glass Art * Faculty of Design :* Department of Functional Design :* Department of Environmental Art :* Department of Metal Design :* Department of Fashion Design * Faculty of Audio-Visual Media Art :* Department of Visual Communication :* Department "Motion. Image. Sound" :* Department of Stage Design * Faculty of Art History :* Department of Art History and Theory :* Department of Restoration :* Department of Humanities

Latgale Branch

The Academy has a branch in Latgale located in

Rēzekne Rēzekne (, ; German: ''Rositten'') is a state city in the Rēzekne River valley in Latgale region of eastern Latvia. It is called ''The Heart of Latgale'' (Latvian ''Latgales sirds'', Latgalian ''Latgolys sirds''). Built on seven hills, Rēzekn ...

Notable alumni

* Arturs Akopjans - figurative and abstract artist *

Lidija Auza Lidija Auza (February 24, 1914 – December 13, 1989) was a Latvian painter, decorator and teacher. Among the first Latvian artists to apply different auxiliary materials, she is best known for her extraordinary assemblages and abstract painting ...

- assemblage and abstract artist *

Biruta Baumane Biruta Baumane (6 June 1922 – 21 January 2017) was a Latvian figurative painter, one of the most notable of her generation of 20th century artists who developed the "harsh style" as a variety of Socialist realism that dominated in the late 195 ...

- 2002 winner of the

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Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science * Anšlavs Eglītis - novelist and author of short stories *

Sandra Kalniete Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheri ...

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, European Commissioner and

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* Gunārs Lūsis - graphic designer responsible with Jānis Strupulis for the design of coinage of the post-Soviet edition of the

lat Lat or LAT may refer to: Places * Lat, Fuman, village in Gilan Province, Iran * Lat, Rasht, village in Gilan Province, Iran * Lat, Mazandaran, village in Iran * Lat-e Disar, village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Lat, Qazvin, village in I ...

Kārlis Padegs Kārlis Padegs (8 October 1911 – 19 April 1940) was a Latvian artist. He studied under Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvītis at the Latvia Art Academy. His best-known work is '' Madonna with Machine Gun'', which belongs to the Latvian National ...

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

painter * Ināra Tetereva - philanthropist behind the Boris and Ināra Teterev fund, a Latvian patron of the arts * Ēvī Upeniece - sculptor

Gallery

File:Latvian Art Academy 1942.jpg, Graduation photo of the Landscape Workshop in 1942. Seated in the middle of the front row is Professor Vilhelms Purvītis. To the left of him is Mārtiņš Krūmiņš. File:19950923 24sant Latvia Postage Stamp.jpg, 1995 stamp. File:Posing next to big statue (8531745443).jpg, Sculpture art outside the Academy. File:Daina Skadmane - veja egle Riga.jpg, Dainas Skadmane's art installation "Vēja egle" next to the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga 2015.

External links

References

Art schools in Latvia Education in Riga Art Academy of Latvia 1921 establishments in Latvia Arts organizations established in 1921 Educational institutions established in 1921 {{Latvia-university-stub