Refugees
In his largest composition “Refugees”, modernist Jēkabs Kazaks who, “like the old masters, wanted to work hard like a craftsman”, expresses the nations tragedy with true severity. He reveals it as the harsh story of a peasant family driven from their home during the First World War. Like a rock in the vertically formed expressive composition, the mighty figure of the grandfather rises above a low …
- Jēkabs Kazaks
- Jēkabs Kazaks
- historical
- refugees
- refugees
- scenes ~ anonymous historical person(s)
- Painting
- Art of painting
- oil paintings (visual works)
- 1917
- oil on canvas
- Oil painting
- canvas (textile material)
- Jēkabs Kazaks
- Jēkabs Kazaks
- historical
- refugees
- refugees
- scenes ~ anonymous historical person(s)
- Painting
- Art of painting
- oil paintings (visual works)
- 1917
- oil on canvas
- Oil painting
- canvas (textile material)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- false
- 1917
- Latvian National Museum of Art
- Penza, Russia
- 210.5 x 107 cm
- lv
- en
- http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22056364
- 1917
- Latvia
- 2015-12-17T15:29:06.722Z
- 2017-09-29T13:08:45.553Z