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Kārlis Padegs (October 8, 1911 – April 19, 1940) is one of Latvia's most popular artists. He studied under noted Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvītis at the Latvia Art Academy. Padegs' style was original and shocking - using themes which were very iconoclastic at the time. == Padegs personality == Kārlis Padegs was born on 8 October 1911 in Torņakalns, workers district of Riga. Padegs spent all his life in Riga with the exception of several years in childhood during World War I when he lived in Dorpat (Tartu) Estonia. The presence of his motherland is, however, rarely felt in his art. One is made acutely aware of an atmosphere reminiscent of Chicago and Paris. Kārlis Padegs turned into a legend of Riga's artistic life. He was contemporary of the tempestuous Jānis Tīdemanis (Džonis) who spent his formative years in Belgium and the barefooted tramp Irbīte (pastel painter Voldemārs Irbe). Some Riga inhabitants will still recall Kārlis Padegs as a most extravagant personality- his Spanish hat, a red scarf, a long black coat, pig-skin gloves, a bamboo cane, patent leather shoes and a white gaiters with little black buttons. The artist may be better remembered than his exhibitions held in quite untraditional premises (at cafe, in the street, in dancing halls) or in the show-windows of L.Kreicberga's photo sallon that once even attracted the attention of the police. Padegs was a Riga dandy whose doings were described in newspapers and discussed in society and who obtrusively played up to the public before exhibitions. He once wrote in the newspaper that ''just this outsider who dreams about ''Narcissus'' and the perverse madonna does not forget the invalid. He shows him side by side with the fashionable Dorian Gray, the lover Don Juan, but why?- Because of sharp contrast, to make even the most dim-minded people understand that the world in World War I has already lost 12,996,117 people killed and 5,669,000 disabled people who have not died yet, and we do not want new victims.'' 〔Jānis Kalnačs. ''Kārlis Padegs'' Rīga. 1993.〕 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「Kārlis Padegs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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