Edgars Vinters

Edgars Vinters (2006)

Edgars Vinters and President Valdis Zatlers (2009)

Edgars Vinters (born September 22, 1919 in Riga ; † April 29, 2014 there ) was a Latvian painter .

Life

Edgars Vinters was the only child of the facade and advertising painter Hermanis Vinters (1874–1939) and his wife Anna, b. Kalniņa (1879-1953). At the age of ten he met the popular pastel painter Voldemārs Irbe , who recognized the boy's talent, taught him the basics of pastel painting and trained his eye for the beauties of nature in the supposedly insignificant.

From 1935 he wrote small articles for children's and youth magazines, which he illustrated with pen drawings and linocuts. With the fees he contributed to the school fees for the commercial school , which he attended until 1940 after changing schools. Through contact with the painter Hugo Kārlis Grotuss (1884–1951) from 1937, Vinters changed his painting style. Grotuss encouraged him to end the "dark phase" that came from Irbe, to use lighter painting grounds and to bring more freshness and color into his pictures. A porcelain factory commissioned him to paint a series of porcelain plates for President Kārlis Ulmanis . After graduating from high school in 1940, Vinters entered the Latvian Art Academy and studied until 1944 with professors Jānis Kuga, Leo Svemps (1897–1975), Jānis Cielavs, Valdemārs Tone, Jānis Annuss, Kārlis Miesnieks and Vilhelms Purvītis .

During the German occupation, Vinters also published drawings and watercolors in German magazines.

In 1944 Vinters had to break off his studies; he was called up as a conscript in the Latvian Legion and deployed at Toruń . In 1945 he was captured by the Soviets and taken to a camp near Moscow . There, Russian officers recognized his talent and enabled him to set up an orchestra and a studio. During this time, a series of drawings and paintings was created, which Vinters showed for the first time in 2012 to an art friend who had worked on him and his work and which were published in a book that same year.

Back in Riga in 1947 he was able to teach art and technical drawing at a high school in Riga. At the same time he attended the Janis Rozentāls School of Art, where he obtained the qualification required for teaching in 1949.

job

Vinters painted representationally, mostly plein air . He drew early works in childhood and adolescence with a pencil and an ink pen, then briefly dealt with linocuts and pastel works in order to find the means of his painting, oil painting . Watercolors and, as a specialty in the 1970s, monotypes were created again and again in his work . Oil painting remained the main means of expression for depicting his beloved Latvian landscapes in all seasons, of flowers and cityscapes.

During the Soviet period, his exhibitions were limited to Riga and other cities of the Latvian SSR . With the liberation of Latvia in 1991, his painting received increasing attention and recognition. At first there were regular solo exhibitions in Latvia, then starting in 1993 in England and the USA and since 2006 in Germany. Vinters' works are increasingly being offered in art dealers by galleries around the world.

During a state visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gül to Latvia on April 2, 2013, Latvian President Andris Bērziņš presented the Güls with a painting by Edgars Vinters as a gift.

• Edgars Vinters - Collection Hans Joachim Gerber
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  Peonies
  oil on cardboard; 70 × 90 cm, 1997

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  Winter afternoon at the Small and Large Guild of Riga
  Oil on cardboard; 80 × 95 cm, 1975

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  Winter sun in Līči near the lake 'Juglas ezers' near Riga
  Oil on cardboard; 76 × 96 cm, 1970

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  Meine Birken im Sommer , 2001
  Oil on cardboard 65 × 87 cm

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  'Braki' house of the poet Rūdolfs Blaumanis in winter
  Monotype, 43 × 61 cm, 1971

Private life

In 1951 Vinters married the teacher and colleague Helma Krause. In 1958 the son Ilmārs was born. On May 2, 2014, Vinters was buried next to his mother in Forest Cemetery No. 1 (1. Meža kapi) in the northeast of Riga.

Awards

Edgars Vinters received the three-star medal with the rank of officer on November 16, 2009 from President Valdis Zatlers .

Edgar's Vinters studio in Dunte

On June 10, 2017, the "Edgara Vintera studija" (Edgars Vinters Studio) was opened in Dunte / Latvia. The landscape around Dunte often offered Vinters attractive motifs for his paintings. In an extension to the Münchhausen Museum, a cross-section of Edgars Vinters' life's work is shown with oil paintings, watercolors and monotypes. In addition, a series of photos describes the artist's life and shows in film excerpts how the artist painted 'pleinair'.

literature

• Hans Joachim Gerber, Ojārs Spārītis: The Latvian painter Edgars Vinters. Verlag Zvaigzne ABC, Riga 2009, ISBN 978-9934-0-0755-2 (illustrated biography in German).
• Hanss Joahims Gerbers, Ojārs Spārītis: Gleznotājs Edgars Vinters. Zvaigzne ABC Publishing House, Riga 2009, ISBN 978-9934-0-0756-9 (The Latvian edition of the biography).
• Günter Grass, Ojārs Spārītis, Hans Joachim Gerber: Es vēlos mājās pārnākt. Edgars Vinters. Verlag Zvaigzne ABC, Riga 2012, ISBN 978-9934-0-3231-8 ( drawings of a soldier ; in four languages: Latvian / English / German / Russian).
• Hans Joachim Gerber, Ojārs Spārītis: Edgars Vinters - gaisma, krāsas, noskaņas / light, colors, moods [Latvian and German] Apgāds Zvaizne, Riga 2019, ISBN 978-9934-0-8452-2

Web links

Commons : Edgars Vinters  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Edgars Vinters in the catalog of the German National Library
• Priekš Latvijas - VISU! (Vinters as a landscape painter). 1998 film by Ilmārs Krū Zakss (1939–2008)
• A day in Latvia with Edgars Vinters (Vinters alla prima or painting on the fly [wet on wet]). Film from 1996 by Ilmārs Krū Zakss (1939–2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cīrulītis magazine from 1934 to 1938:
   • Pen drawing by fifteen year old Edgars Vinters.
   • Linocut illustrates a Latvian poem ( Daina ): (Sad sparrows cry / When they see my threshing / Don't cry, sparrows / There are still heaps of them lying there).
   • Pen and ink drawing for the folk song Tumšā nakte, zaļā zālē (“Dark night, green grass”).
   • Pen and ink drawing of the island in the lake "Baltezers".
   • Linocut portrait of Martin Luther .
   • Linocut portrait of the composer Jāzeps Vītols .
   Skolu Dzīve magazine, 1936 and 1937:
   • Linocut portrait of the pastor and linguist Gotthard Friedrich Stender .
   • Pencil drawing my house.
   • The violinist E. Vinters plays his own composition Childhood Memories.
   • Illustration to Christmas Eve.
2. ^ Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland from December 1941 to April 1942:
   • Pen drawing Small river in winter.
   • Pen drawing forest lake in winter .
   • Watercolor path over land .
   • Pen drawing time of the snowmelt .
   • Pen drawing lights spring lake .
3. ↑ exhibition Vinteratkusnis In: Latvijas Avīze May 20, 2011 (10 photos).
4. ↑ Series of pictures on Edgars Vinters in galleries:
   • Galerie Paintings.lv ( Memento from July 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
   • Antonija Gallery
   • Mākslas Vēstniecība Gallery
5. ↑ Article Arī ikdienišķajā ieraudzīt skaisto. ('Seeing the beautiful in everyday life too') In: Latvijas Avīze. May 21, 2011 “ […] Aizpērn mākslinieku E. Vinteru godināja viņa 90 gadu jubilejā, gleznotājs saņēma augstāko valsts apbalvojumu - Triju Zvaigžņu ordeni. "(German:" [...] last year, in honor of the 90th birthday of the artist E. Vinters, the painter received the highest state award, the three-star order ")
6. ↑ Latvijas Valsts prezidents: Valsts apbalvojumi ( Memento from February 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Ar Triju Zvaigžņu ordeni apbalvoto personu reģistrs apbalvošanas secībā, sākot no 2004. gada 1.oktobra, link variable)
7. ^ German-language website on the Münchhausen Museum in Dunte