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Edgars Vinters (September 22, 1919 – April 29, 2014) was a Latvian painter. == Life == 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). As a ten-year-old boy he met with the popular pastelist Voldemārs Irbe, who detected the boy’s talent, taught him the basics of pastel painting and opened his eyes for the beauty of nature in the alleged minor details. As from 1935 he wrote small articles for children's and youth magazines, which he illustrated with pen and ink drawings and linocuts.〔Journal ''Cīrulītis'', 1934 to 1938: * (''Pen drawing of fifteen year old Edgars Vinters. '' ) * (Linocut illustrating a Latvian poem (Daina): (''Sadly cry the sparrows / When they see me threshing / Don't cry, little sparrows/ There still remains a lot''). ) * ( Pen drawing illustrating popular song ''Tumšā nakte, zaļā zālē'' ("Dark night, green grass") ). * (Pen drawing ''Island in lake „Baltezers“ ''. ) * (Linocut ''Portrait of Martin Luther. '' ) * ( Linocut ''Portrait of composer Jāzeps Vītols. '' ) Journal ''Skolu Dzīve'', January to December 1936: * ( Linocut ''Portrait of theologian and linguist Gotthard Friedrich Stender'' ) * ( Pen drawing '' My house'' ) * (Violinist E. Vinters plays an own composition ''Memories of childhood'' ) * ( Illustration to ''Christmas evening'' ).〕 With the money he made he contributed to the school fee for the commercial college he attended until 1940 after a change of school. Resulting from a contact he made with the painter Hugo Kārlis Grotuss, from 1937 Vinters changed his painting style. Grotuss encouraged him to give up ‘the dark phase’ he was in through Irbe, to use brighter primers and to show more briskness and colours in his paintings. A porcelain factory engaged him to paint a series of porcelain plates for president Kārlis Ulmanis. After he had taken his high-school-diploma, he joined the Latvian Art Academy and until 1944 studied under the professors Jānis Kuga, Leo Svemps, Jānis Cielavs, Valdemārs Tone, Jānis Annuss, Kārlis Miesnieks und Vilhelms Purvītis. 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. In 1945 he was taken prisoner of war by the Soviet Army and deported to a POW camp near Moscow. There Russian officers made out his artistic abilities and facilitated the establishment of an atelier. During this time Vinters made a series of drawings and paintings, which he for the first time showed to an art lover, who had worked about his life and his works and which were published in an art book the same year 2012. Back in Riga in 1947 he could teach art and drafting at a secondary school. At the same time he attended Janis Rozentāls Art Highschool and got his qualifications for teaching in 1949. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edgars Vinters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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