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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 …

  • Latvian National Museum of Art (opens in new window)
  • Jēkabs Kazaks
  • Jēkabs Kazaks
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  • refugees
  • refugees
  • scenes ~ anonymous historical person(s)
  • Painting
  • Art of painting
  • oil paintings (visual works)
  • 1917
  • oil on canvas
  • Oil painting
  • canvas (textile material)
  • Latvian National Museum of Art (opens in new window)
  • 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)
  • Europeana 280
  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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  • 1917
  • Latvian National Museum of Art
  • Penza, Russia
  • 210.5 x 107 cm
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  • http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22056364
  • 1917
  • Latvia
  • 2063605_EU_280_Latvia
  • 2015-12-17T15:29:06.722Z
  • 2017-09-29T13:08:45.553Z