In his altarpieces, in line with the early 20th century artistic trends, the painter has subjectively interpreted the life of Christ and enriched the handling of form. The Portrait in Latvia 20th Century.The versatile painter and graphic artist Janis Rozentals (1866-1916) has made a significant contribution to the sacred art of Latvia. The catalogue of the exhibition works is complemented by a series of analytical articles that provide a deeper insight into the thematic sections of the exhibition, portrait forms and periods of the creation of the works. The wide-ranging portrait gallery which symbolically begins with a self-portrait of Janis Rozentāls created around 1900 and ends with the work by Imants Lancmanis, "Self-Portrait by the Apple Wreath" (2011) is accompanied by Māris Bērziņš’s essay “Facial Expressions” dedicated to this exhibition. The exhibition of 20th century portraiture corresponds to this pattern – it is being held after an interval of almost 11 years – and urges us to seek an answer to the question: how are the 20th century depictions of the human being in visual arts different to those which were created in the previous centuries? This project, realised by the LNMA, is a continuation of the trilogy of exhibitions devoted to 17th–19th century portrait that was held at the Rundāle Palace and which opened at roughly 11-year intervals after long-term scientific research. The wide-ranging exhibition and the catalogue accompanying it are a continuation of the research that was commenced with deep respect for the genre and its history by the director of the Rundāle Palace Museum, Imants Lancmanis Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece The voluminous, richly illustrated catalogue is part of the Latvian National Museum of Art project – the exhibition “The Portrait in Latvia 20th Century", which offers an encounter with a selection of the finest portraits from a whole century.
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