Eduards KLAVINS

Professor Eduards KLAVINS Dr.habil. art. Latvian Academy of Art Kalpaka 13, Riga LV 1867 Latvia Tel.: +371 7334641 Fax: +371 7228963

• Art History
• Theory of Art
• Theory of Art History
• Portrait Painting
• Impressionism
• Art Nouveau
• Classical Modernism
• Latvian art of the 19th and 20th centuries, iconography, style, connections with other European art schools

Languages: Latvian, Russian, English, German, French

Education

• Academy of Arts (art history), St. Petersburg, Russia, 1962

Experience

Latvian Academy of Art:

• Senior Lecturer, 1962 - 1985
• Associate Professor, 1985 - 1992
• Professor of Art History, 1992 -
• Head of the Department of Art History and Theory, 1996 -

Abroad:

• Research Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, St. Andrews University, 1997

• Latvian Ministry of Culture Prize, 1998

• Iconography and Style of Latvian Art: End of the 19th, Beginning of the 20th Century: Riga, 1983, (in Latvian).
• Henry van de Velde’s Building in Riga. In: Monuments of Culture. Recent Discoveries.- Moscow, 1987, (in Russian).
• Latvian Art Connections with Other Schools.- Riga, 1988, (in Latvian).
• Notion of Ornament and Plastic Arts. In: Ornaments Latvija. - Riga, 1994, pp. 7 -12 (in Latvian, German Summary).
• Borcherts Artists Couple and the First Generation of Art Society “Rukis”. - In: Kunst im Ostseeraum. Greifswalder Kunsthistorische Studien. B.i. - Frankfurt a. M., 1995, S. 78 - 86. (in German).
• Latvian Portrait Painting. 1850 - 1916. - Riga, (in Latvian, English Summary).
• Lack and Freedom of Personal Time. Latvian Art Before 1945. - In: Personal Time. Art of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 1945 - 1996. Warsaw, 1996. Vol. Latvia. pp. 22 - 27.
• Art History in Totalitarian Societies and Its Alternative Models in Post- Totalitarian Age.- Second Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe “Values and Norms of Society in Change”. Vilnius, 1997. Abstracts, p. 79.
• Features of Neo-Romanticism in Latvian Visual Art at the Turn of the 20th Century.- In: Romantisms un neoromantisms Latvijas maksla. Riga, 1998. pp. 116 - 123. (in Latvian, Summary in English).

• Scottish Visual Arts of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries and their Influences on Latvian Artists. A grant of Caledonian Research Foundation/ Royal Society of Edinburgh. Eduards Klavins, Professor of art history, Latvian Academy of Art, 1997.
• Monograph “Jazeps Grosvalds”. A Research Sholarship of Latvian KKF. 1995 - 1997.

I am a busy man, a bit too busy to be efficient enough. I am married, my wife - Elita Grosmane is also an art historian, quite a good one. I have two sons, one of them studies painting in Latvian Academy of Art, other is in a secondary school. I have a family house and a little garden outside Riga, a fine dalmatian and a cat.

My hobby is modernistic fiction and philosophy.

Last update 23.11.1998