12 Notable alumni of
Art Academy of Latvia
Updated:
The Art Academy of Latvia is 2353rd in the world, 761st in Europe, and 4th in Latvia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from the Art Academy of Latvia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
-
Sandra Kalniete
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
-
Sandra Kalniete is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009, she has served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the European People's Party.
-
Anšlavs Eglītis
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
-
Anšlavs Eglītis was a Latvian writer, journalist and painter who became a war refugee in 1944. He had a prolific career as a novelist, and his later work often examined aspects of exile life.
-
Džemma Skulme
- Occupations
- visual artistpainterartistillustrator
- Biography
-
Džemma Lija Skulme was a Latvian artist and modernist painter. Džemma Skulme's personality played a paramount role in Latvian art development and social life of Latvia in the second half of the 20th century.
-
Kārlis Padegs
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
-
Kārlis Padegs was a Latvian artist. He studied under Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvītis at the Latvia Art Academy. His best-known work is Madonna with Machine Gun, which belongs to the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga.
-
Gundega Repše
- Occupations
- writerjournalistart historian
- Biography
-
Gundega Repše is a Latvian writer. She received the Annual Latvian Literature Award in 2000 for her novel Thumbelina (Īkstīte). In 2018, Repše was awarded the Baltic Assembly Literature Award.
-
Ināra Tetereva
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
-
Ināra Tetereva is a Latvian philanthropist and patron of charities in Latvia.
-
Helēna Demakova
- Occupations
- politicianart historianexhibition curator
- Biography
-
Helēna Demakova is a Latvian art historian, curator of art exhibitions, and politician. She served as Culture Minister of Latvia from 2004 until 2009 and was a Member of the 9th Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) and lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia.
-
Mārtiņš Krūmiņš
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
-
Mārtiņš Krūmiņš was a Latvian-American Impressionist painter. He left Latvia after World War II and came to the United States in 1950. "Mārtiņš Krūmiņš... belongs to those artists of his generation, who amidst the changing trends of contemporary art, after thirty years in exile and emigration, as still basically close to and developing the traditions of their homeland art – of the 'Latvian or Riga School'".
-
Anda Skadmane
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
-
Anda Skadmane is a Latvian artist.
-
Gunārs Lūsis
- Occupations
- designerpaintergraphic designer
- Biography
-
Gunārs Lūsis is a Latvian artist and graphical designer. Lūsis is notable for creating the design for some of the modern Latvian coins with denominations in Latvian lats, and for authoring the logo for the Latvian presidency of the Council of the European Union.
-
Antons Kūkojs
- Occupations
- actorpoettheatrical directorpainterwriter
- Biography
-
Antons Kūkojs was a Latvian and Latgalian poet, painter and theatre director. In 2000, he was awarded with the Order of the Three Stars.
-
Arturs Akopjans
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
-
Arturs Akopjans is a Latvian painter of Armenian origin.
