Edvards GRUBE
1935, Lithuania
Also known as: EG
Edvards Grube biography:
Edvards Grube's creative force is the embodiment of Latvian mentality, which reaches the revelation of spiritual tension in peasant-like thoroughness.
His board, masculine brush-stroke carries a strong emotional message, which can be hardly restrained by reason. Restricted colour scheme of warm colours, supplemented with pasty, layered red or blue, creates a hymnic atmospere.
There are no accidental topics in Edvards Grube's paintings. His path of artistic growth carries the dramatic markings of the Crucified, the subject of mother and child, the motif of light in the window, fragments of violin, bread. Each depicted object is transformed into a sign that carries the whole load of the work.
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Edvards Grūbe entered in latvian art scene in 1960s, confiming himself as a bright master of tonal painting. The artist has become as one of the most influential forses in latvian painting school. His talant synthesizes symbolic, nationally significant subjects (mother, mother with child) with expressive language of modernism. The paintings of Edvards Grūbe can be characterized by substantiality, simplicity and clearness of forms.
Edvards Grūbe participates in exhibitions from 1961. The artist has had exhibitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Germany, Japan, USA etc., the sum of exhibitions reaches several hundreds, also he has been awarded repeatedly. The works of Edvards Grūbe are included in collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, The Artist’s Union of Latvia Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Culture ministry of Russia, Art museum of Lithuania in Vilnus, Ludwig Modern Art Museum in Germany and in private collections in Latvia and abroad.