Janis Friedrich Alexander Baumanis
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Baumanis, Jānis Friedrich Alexander
Born May 23 (June 4), 1834, in Riga; died there Mar. 19 (31), 1891. The first professional Latvian architect.
Baumanis studied at the Academy of Construction in Berlin from 1860 to 1862 and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1862 to 1863. Between the 1860’s and the 1880’s he designed many commercial and public buildings in Riga. In their decor he eclectically used the forms of the Renaissance and classicism. An example of his work is the house of the Livonian dvorianstvo (nobility or gentry), now the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR (1863–67, co-architect R. Pflug).
REFERENCE
Kampe, P. Architekts Jānis Fr. Baumanis, 1834–1891: Viɳa dzīve un vina mūža darbs. Riga, 1927.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.