Biografie von Janis GAILIS (1903-1975)

Birth place: Courland, Latvia

Addresses: Ozone Park, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: Acad. Fine Arts, Riga, Latvia, landscape painting with Vilhelms Purvitis, 1925-32, diploma, 1932.

Exhibited: Ligoa Duncan Gallery, NYC & Paris VI, France, 1970s; Kuntshaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1949 (solo); Galerie Int., NYC, 1958 (solo), Ligoa Duncan Gallery, New York, 1963 (solo); Raymond Duncan Gallery, Paris, France, 1966 (solo) & 1972 (solo).

Work: State Mus. Latvia, Riga; City Mus. Liepaja, Latvia.

Comments: Preferred medium: oils. Teaching: art instructor, State H.S., Rezekne, Latvia, 1932-44.

Sources: WW73; Janis Silins, Janis Gailis (W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Germany, 1948); Hugo Vitols & George W. Weber, Jr. Janis Gailis (Amber Printers & Publ., Toronto, 1971).