Julians Zagorskis | |
Birth Name: | Julians Zagorskis |
Birth Date: | April 1903 |
Birth Place: | Eisāgi, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Eisāgi, Latvian SSR |
Nationality: | Latvian |
Known For: | Ceramics |
Movement: | Latgalian ceramics |
Julians Zagorskis (April 1903 – 1978) was a Latvian and Latgalian ceramicist.[1]
Julians Zagorskis was born in Eisāgi village in the modern-day Rušona Parish, Russian Empire in 1903.[2] He was born in a ceramicists family, his brother Augusts was also a well-known Latgalian ceramicist.[3] He started to work as a ceramicist in 1918.[4]
Zagorskis, alongside Andrejs Paulāns, Polikarps Vilcāns and others, was one of the Latgalian ceramicists that was represented in 1957 Silajāņi ceramics exhibition in Rīga, organized by Jānis Pujāts.[5] In later years, his works were selected for the exhibitions in Latvian SSR and abroad, in Moscow, Soviet Union.[6]
Zagorskis died in 1978. He is buried in the Eisāgi cemetery.
His works are in the collections of Rainis Museum in Jasmuiža Manor and Latgale Culture and History Museum.[7]