Unknown artist
Refugees
1917
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-160830
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 horizon – a symbol of strength; the image of the grandmother radiates the wisdom of the national spirit but the young mother with her suckling infant – the incessant drive of life. The refugees have …
Provenance
Latvian National Museum of Art
Registry history
- 1917 — Recorded in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art
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