Vilhelms Purvītis

Vilhelms Purvītis
Born(1872-03-03)3 March 1872
Zaube, Kreis Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire. Now  Latvia
Died14 January 1945(1945-01-14) (aged 72)
Bad Nauheim, Third Reich. Now  Germany
NationalityLatvian
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1913)
Alma materHigher Art School (1895)
Known forPainting
MovementImpressionism

Vilhelms Purvītis (3 March 1872 – 14 January 1945) was a landscape painter and educator who founded the Latvian Academy of Art and was its rector from 1919 to 1934.

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