Ģederts Eliass (1887–1975) is one of the most enigmatic and underappreciated artists of the 1920s–1930s. He is the only Latvian artist whose work is held in the Musée d'Orsay, which inherited the late 19th-/early 20th-century art collections of the Louvre Museum—collections that also acquired a work by Eliass. He was among the most educated and erudite Latvian artists of his time, and the only one to have obtained an academic, European-level art education before World War I. Over the course of his life he worked in virtually all the major artistic movements popular at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, until he finally arrived at a fully personal mode of expression.
Lot Nr. 11 Ģederts Eliass (1887—1975)
"Bridge over the Seine", 1922, canvas / oil.24 x 34 cm
Ģederts Eliass (1887–1975) is one of the most enigmatic and underappreciated artists of the 1920s–1930s. He is the only Latvian artist whose work is held in the Musée d'Orsay, which inherited the late 19th-/early 20th-century art collections of the Louvre Museum—collections that also acquired a work by Eliass. He was among the most educated and erudite Latvian artists of his time, and the only one to have obtained an academic, European-level art education before World War I. Over the course of his life he worked in virtually all the major artistic movements popular at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, until he finally arrived at a fully personal mode of expression.