Biography
Indriķis Zeberiņš was born in 1882 in the Kuldiga district into a peasant family. As a child, he began drawing, but since he had no paper, he sketched on peeled spruce boards.[1] In 1906 he went to Riga to study in the studio of Janis Rozentāls. In 1914–1915 he continued his studies in St. Petersburg at the N.K. Roerich St. Petersburg Art School. During World War I, he served in the 3rd Kurzeme Latvian Rifle Regiment. In 1920, he enrolled at the Art Academy of Latvia, and in 1925, he graduated from Jānis Roberts Tillbergs’ (1880–1972) Course of Figurative Painting. After completing his studies, he worked for various print publications, creating vignettes, caricatures, and satirical drawings while actively engaging in book illustration. In 1951, he was accused of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to four years in prison.Artistic style
Zeberiņš was a painter and graphic artist specializing in figurative painting. From the 1920s, he participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. He created illustrations for many magazines, including “Svari” (“Scales”) and “Humorists” (“Humorist”), as well as for newspapers and books.[4] The most famous Latvian books illustrated by him are Anna Brigadere “Dievs, Daba Darbs” (“God, Nature, Work”) (1927); Andrejs Upīts “Sūnu ciema zēni” (“The Boys of Moss Village”) (1947) and “Zaļā zeme” (“The Green Land”) (1947) and Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš “The Green Book” (1965).[5]
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