Kārlis Padegs

"The Last Supper (The Song About Bread (?))" from "The Book for the Poor", 1933 or 1934.

"Buy white roses, sir!" 1933 or 1934. From series "The Book for the Poor".

"Don't go!" 1930. From the series "Red Laughter".

"Derby Race in Askota (?) (Horse Race), 1935.

"Father and Son" 1932

*then Rozenbergs, later swapped for a local equivalent of the German name. 

Nevertheless this exhibition earned highly mixed reviews.

While Kārlis Padegs wrote: "Art is not a reproduction of the existing, but every artist's duty to find harmony between himself and his creative spirit, looking for a fulfillment, an expression of his "self". He must try to understand the pulse of the current age. The face of this age is the starting point, to show the colours of life's shadows, which will never be too dark for it, for depicting war, unemployment and the ultramodern life of cabaret."

"Opera at Night" 1932 - 1933

"Beach View of Jūrmala" around 1933.

Dancing on a catamaran in Jūrmala, around 1933. From left - Voldemārs Griķis (?), Kārlis Padegs, Hanele (Elvīra Mituse) and Jānis Tīdemanis. 

Kārlis Padegs and a shop window advert for Jūlijs Kreicbergs' photo salon, 1930s.

"Portraitists". From left - Ernests Miķelis, Fricis Zandbergs, Kārlis Padegs, Kārlis Danne, Oļģerts Jaunarājs and an unknown person. Around 1930. 

Padegs in the yard of "Jaunkaņepēni" (his family home), late 1920s or early 1930s.

Studies at Jaunkaņepēni, late 1920s or early 1930s.

Kārlis Padegs, photographed by Henrihs Bauers, probably in his personal photo salon,1939 or 1940. The photographer took Padegs' last portraits, when the illness was already impossible to hide.

Kārlis Padegs, photographed by Henrihs Bauers. 1939 or 1940.