Bernhard Borchert (1 December 1863,
Riga
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– 1945) was a
Baltic-German
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly ...
painter who spent the greatest part of his life in
Latvia
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. He entered the
Imperial Academy of Arts
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in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
in 1883, and was in 1885 awarded a silver medal from the same institute.
He produced book and magazine illustrations.
He was the author of the "Baltic artists’ painting exhibition" (''Baltijas mākslinieku gleznu izstāde'').
See also
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List of Baltic German artists
Artwork
File:Bernhard-Borchert-1.jpg, The Devil and his Grandmother
File:Bernhard-Borchert-2.jpg, The Temptation of the Virgin
References
Latvian artists
Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire
1863 births
1945 deaths
Painters from the Russian Empire
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