LIBERTS LUDOLFS. "Paysage aux tons argentes", 1930.

Ludolf Liberts (1895-1959) - Latvian painter, stage designer, outstanding figure in Latvian culture. Ludolf Lieberts was born on April 3, 1895 in the town of Tirza, Vendensky district of the Livonian province of the Russian Empire. He died in 1959 in the United States.Training: Imperial Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art (1911-1912), Kazan Art School (1912-1915), Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (K. Korovin′s workshop, 1915),Creative way:Decorator at the Kazan Opera House (1913-1914).Employee of the magazine "Ho-ho" (1922-1924),Decorator and director of the Latvian National Opera (1924-1937),Director of the Latvian Mint (1935-1940 and 1941-1944),Teacher (1923-1932) and head of the figural painting workshop (1942-1944) of the Latvian Academy of Arts.During the Second World War in 1944 he fled to Austria, then to Germany, where he worked at the Latvian Art School in Esslingen. In 1950 he emigrated to the United States, where he taught painting at New York City College from 1951.He was a member of the Riga group of artists, a member and, later, the head of the art association "Sadarbs", the head of the Latvian Society of Fine Arts (1938), a member of the student society "Konkordija Valdemārija" of the University of Latvia.Laureate of the Latvian Cultural Foundation Prize (1923, 1924, 1927), holder of the degree of an outstanding artist of the Latvian Academy of Arts for merits in painting (1934), holder of the Latvian Order of the Three Stars IV degree (1928) and the Swedish Order of the Polar Star, winner of Gold medals at international exhibitions in Paris (1931) and Barcelona (1937).