AzLab#73 | The influence of german architecture in late Art Nouveau interiors in Riga
February 16th, 2022 | 18h00 [Lisbon Time Zone - UTC] | via Zoom [session to be held in English]
The city of Riga harbours an impressive set of Art Nouveau tile decorations, dating back to 1910-1913, a time when the building industry was booming in the Latvian capital. These tiles, applied mainly in the vestibules of rental buildings, and thought to have been imported from Germany, were never properly valued, catalogued or studied. That is precisely the challenge embraced by Agnese Tambaka, a Ph.D. candidate at the Art Academy of Latvia, who will be presenting some of her findings at AzLab#73. Don't miss this opportunity to get to know Latvia's tile decorations!
Agnese Tambaka (born 1990) is an art historian. In 2018 she received a Master's degree in humanities in the fields of visual plastic art, history and theory of art. Her scientific research was dedicated to the theme Christian Iconography in Dutch Tile Decor on the Territory of Latvia in the 18th-19th Centuries. She published Certain Evidences of the 17th-19th Century Dutch Tiles in Riga in the journal Ancient Riga: Researches of the City's Archaeology and History (2018). At the moment, she is a doctoral student at the Art Academy of Latvia and currently works on the theme Wall and Floor Tile Decorations in the Architecture of Riga at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and in the Beginning of the 20th Century, supervised by Silvija Grosa.
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