Līvija Endzelīna

Līvija Endzelīna (; 30 October 1927 – 27 March 2008) was a Latvian painter mainly noted for her still life paintings. She was one of the most well known personalities in Latvian art of the 20th century. In 1989, she received the honorary title of Meritorious Artist of the Latvian SSR.

Biography Līvija Endzelīna was born on October 30, 1927 in Riga, Latvia. Her father, who was 54 when she was born, was the linguist Jānis Endzelīns, a highly regarded figure in Latvian culture. Her mother, Marta Grimma, was a well-known poet, translator and commentator in 1930s Latvia.

Art Endzelīna brought a new, original and highly subjective version of realistic painting to Latvian art.

Her works of the 1990s are characterized by a darkened color and a relatively gloomy theme, which expresses concerns about the surrounding world, about evil, human cruelty. At the end of her life, at the beginning of the 21st century, the artist again turned to more frequent painting of seashells, and her works are characterized by warmer, more cheerful colors and a gentle character, with relatively less emphasis on materiality and more on the expression of color.