( ISBN 978-56-9 The Latvian edition of the biography). Hanss Joahims Gerbers, Ojārs Spārītis: Gleznotājs Edgars Vinters.( ISBN 978-55-2 Illustrated biography, German language). Hans Joachim Gerber, Ojārs Spārītis: Der lettische Maler Edgars Vinters.Vinters was buried on at the 1st Riga Forest Cemetery in the northeastern part of Riga at the side of his mother.Įdgars Vinters, House ’Braki’ of poet Rūdolfs Blaumanis in Winter, Monotype, 43 x 61, 1971 (Hans Joachim Gerber collection) Their only child son Ilmārs was born in 1958. In 1951 Vinters married Helma Krause, a teacher and colleague. He has described his primary goal in painting as "to strive for the light." Private life Vinters' work was acclaimed for its usage of light and color through his usage of layering and blurs, he achieved a wide range of lighting and color levels even within individual pieces. Vinters painted many of his works en plein air.
However, oil painting remained his primary medium throughout his career. Frequently in his craft he made aquarelles and, as a speciality during the 1970s, monotypes. Early works from his childhood and youth were made with pencil and ink pen later, he made linocuts and pastel works for a short time, before starting his predominant medium of oil painting. The majority of his works were landscape and still-life paintings, emphasizing natural landscapes and flowers however, he did also paint some urban scenes. Vinters was a realist painter who also took inspiration from the impressionist movement. Vinters continued to exhibit his paintings until his death in 2014. Vinters was given a solo exhibition in England in 1992, the first of many in that country he also began to show his paintings in the United States and Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Throughout the Soviet period, Vinters' work was displayed primarily within Latvia however, after Latvia became independent in 1991, he began to receive attention from a wider audience. After returning to Riga in 1947, he began to teach art and drafting at a secondary school at the same time, he attended Janis Rozentāls Art Highschool and got his qualifications in teaching in 1949. There, Russian officers made out his artistic abilities and facilitated the establishment of an atelier. In 1945 he was taken prisoner of war by the Soviet Army and deported to a POW camp near Moscow. In 1944, Vinters had to drop out of his studies he was drafted for the service in the Latvian Legion and deployed near Toruń on the Vistula River. Īfter receiving his high school diploma, Vinters joined the Art Academy of Latvia and until 1944 studied under the professors Jānis Kuga, Leo Svemps, Jānis Cielavs, Valdemārs Tone, Jānis Annuss, Kārlis Miesnieks and Vilhelms Purvītis.
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During this time, he was also called upon to paint a series of porcelain plates for president Kārlis Ulmanis. Grotuss encouraged him to give up 'the dark phase' he had developed through Irbe, to use brighter primers and to show more briskness and color in his paintings.
Resulting from contact he made with the painter Hugo Kārlis Grotuss, from 1937 Vinters changed his painting style. With the money he made from these pieces, he contributed to the school fee for the commercial college he attended until 1940, after a change of school. From 1935 on, he wrote small articles for children's and youth magazines, which he illustrated with pen and ink drawings and linocuts. As a ten-year-old boy he met with the pastelist Voldemārs Irbe, who instructed Vinters in pastel painting and helped to foster his appreciation for nature. Born in Riga, Edgars Vinters was the only child of the facade and decoration painter Hermanis Vinters (1874–1939) and his wife Anna, née Kalniņa, (1879–1953).