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1897 Latvia - 1964. Known for: Expressionist floral still-life, portraits, landscape and urban scene painting.
Originally from Latvia, Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis led the life of a cosmopolitan artist. At the age of eleven he emigrated to live with an uncle in Cleveland, Ohio. After his first artistic... Read full biography
Originally from Latvia, Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis led the life of a cosmopolitan artist. At the age of eleven he emigrated to live with an uncle in Cleveland, Ohio. After his first artistic attempts, he continued his studies in Italy and France. From 1930 he took part in exhibitions in Anvers,... Read full biography
Originally from Latvia, Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis led the life of a cosmopolitan artist. At the age of eleven he emigrated to live with an uncle in Cleveland, Ohio. After his first artistic attempts, he continued his studies in Italy and France. From 1930 he took part in exhibitions in Anvers, Brussels, Riga, Kaunas and Tallinn. He stayed in Latvia until the outbreak of World War II. The German occupation in 1944 was followed by his capture and internment in Dachau, and later in Konstanz. In... Read full biography
Originally from Latvia, Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis led the life of a cosmopolitan artist. At the age of eleven he emigrated to live with an uncle in Cleveland, Ohio. After his first artistic attempts, he continued his studies in Italy and France. From 1930 he took part in exhibitions in Anvers, Brussels, Riga, Kaunas and Tallinn. He stayed in Latvia until the outbreak of World War II. The German occupation in 1944 was followed by his capture and internment in Dachau, and later in Konstanz. In 1944 he managed to escape to Switzerland. After the war ended, he moved to Toronto, where he lived until his death. For biographical reasons, Tidemanis' painterly oeuvre, inspired by Expressionism and Fauvism, is now widely scattered. In addition to... Read full biography
Originally from Latvia, Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis led the life of a cosmopolitan artist. At the age of eleven he emigrated to live with an uncle in Cleveland, Ohio. After his first artistic attempts, he continued his studies in Italy and France. From 1930 he took part in exhibitions in Anvers, Brussels, Riga, Kaunas and Tallinn. He stayed in Latvia until the outbreak of World War II. The German occupation in 1944 was followed by his capture and internment in Dachau, and later in Konstanz. In 1944 he managed to escape to Switzerland. After the war ended, he moved to Toronto, where he lived until his death. For biographical reasons, Tidemanis' painterly oeuvre, inspired by Expressionism and Fauvism, is now widely scattered. In addition to still-lifes with flowers, with which he became famous, the artist also dealt with scenes from urban life.... Read full biography
Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis - Artist Info
About Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis: Keywords
Keywords (11)
Art Method
- •Impasto, Heavy Paint
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Dancers-Figure, Genre, Ballerinas
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Urban Scene, City Genre
Art School
- •Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Student
Added Description
- •Imprisoned Artist: Wars and/or Political Reasons