Oscar Wergeland and Nikolay Kulainis. Karmøy exhibition/utstilling

 I got this idea about both painters in the exhibitions in Karmøy 2014. Exhibition was organized by Lions Club Karmsund.

Common features:

• night
• classic.

Oscar Wergeland (1844-1910)

I skogen, In the wood, 1872, 25000

Utdannet ved Kunstakademiet i København og Kunstakademiet i Munchen. Deltatt flere ganger på Statens Høstutstilling og Verdensutstilling i Paris i 1878 og 1889. Medlem i komiteen for Verdensutstillingen i Paris og har fått utmerkelsen "Mention honorable" Paris 1889.

Hans hovedverk er det store og kjente "Riksforsamlingen på Eidsvold 1814" i Stortinget, malt 1885.

Nikolay Kulainis (1901-1975)

He was a fugitive in Moscow at the I World war time. Since 1919 artist lived in Riga.

He learned at the Latvian Art Academy (1924-1931). Since 1929 he took part at the exhibitions. After the II World war time he took part at the republican exhibitions rarely, but exhibited own works in small self exhibitions in Riga.

He painted mainly urban landscapes, Riga`s sights at night, where he founded a special painting manner.

Art gallery Antonia, Juning star, Nikolay Kulainis, oil on board, 31x24cm

Somewhere

Gallery Daugava

The works of three artists recent, graduates of Art Academy of Latvia - Madara Neikena (1988),  Edgars Soprans (1988) and Dagne Ventina (1986).

" "Somewhere" is ambiguous - places and things, real and imagined, can create different associations based on the individual experience leading the viewer into a surprising  insight."

Dagne Ventina, Scarf/Skjerf, oil on plywood/oil on finer, 2015, 40x40

Dagne Ventina.

" Everyday themes and rituals whose value and delicacy is highlighted by isolating them from their usual surroundings are observed by D.Ventina."

Madara Neikena. Home, oil on canvas/olje på lerret, 2015 , 120x180

" Madara Neikena catches the seamingly uncatchable in her painting - the mood, the smell, the sound of each individual element. The presence of nature has a significant  role in her work. The meditative temper and minimalistic approach of her creative work allows  the viewer to reflect on their own feelings."

Janis Murovskis - exhibition " Sens of Mysterious Distance" 05.11.-29.11.14

Gallery Daugava

Janis Murovski. Gallery Daugava

Alise Medina - exhibition "Nature" 26.09.- 25.10.14

Gallery Jekabs

Alise Medina. Gallery Jekabs

Arkādija Park

In 1852 , Counsil General Vērmanis purchased 1.1 hectares of land and immediately turned to serious gardening. There was  a lovley garden at his home, and he grew rare palm trees in a hothouse.

In 1896 the garden was purchased by the Riga City Council, and the gardens  directorate was entrusted with turning it into public park to known as Torņakalns Park. Georg Kuphaldt undertook the job and, utilizing his botanic skills and gardening abilities, created a beautiful landscape park. Kuphaldt shifted the bed of the Mārupīte river, installed waterfalls, dug ponds and built small bridges.

www.spoki.lv

There is very interesing described Arkādijas park's story in book by A.Kolbergs, L.Balodis and A.Liepiņa "Rīga for the curious traveller":

In the middle of 19th century the consul of Prussia Christian Heinrich von Wehrmann bought several building lots from their owner  in the park territory. He had green houses with palm trees, grapevines, apricots, and other rare tropical pants, just like  the ones at Sans-Souci in  Potsdam. And then he died. A series of owners tried to make money from the garden, but with the little success. Finally in  1896 the city of Riga  bought was left of Wehrmann's estate, because in Torņakalns area there was not a single park. The city kept buying land and it is became available and added to the meadows that it already owned. Ponds were dug in the meadows and the sand used to build  up to rest  of parkland. In order to earn money from further park development, the park was  rented to a brewery, the forerunner of present  day Aldaris. The brewery immediately built a restaurant.

But in the 1902 the restaurant burned to the ground. And new one was built and  that too  burded down. The third restaurant did not burn down. In 1958 it was rebuilt into a movie theater. Then it was abandoned to the  ravareges of time and of the homeless. In 2000 the local vandals  burned down the bandstand.

The plan for Torņakalna parks was drawn by the city landscape architect Georg Kuphaldt. He must have been delighted when the building of Torņakalna railway station, railway tracks and streetcar tracks all necessitated the changing of the river bed of Mārupīte. Before letting the  stream across Uzvaras parks (Victory Square) and enter Daugava, Kuphaldt ran it through Arkādija. He could  make it  twist and turn, make  cascades and waterfalls. Mārupīte became the most beautiful feature in the park.

During World War I  the park suffered badly when refugees driven out  of Kurzeme stayed there, farm people with their  carts and farm animals. In order not to leave anything to the Germans, the Russian army drove people out of their homes, burned the buildings, and ordered them to destroy their own rippening crops."

www.rigain.com