



The Most Famous
Painters from Latvia
Trending Painters from Latvia This Week
The top 10 Painters from Latvia trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1

Mark Rothko
1903 - 1970
Trending in Italian (#262) Wikipedia (945 views, on Apr 6).
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvians Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 5 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 38th most number of Painters behind Croatia and South Africa.
Top 5 Latvian Painters
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvians Painters of all time. This list of famous Latvians Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Mark Rothko
1903 - 1970
HPI 74.5761 langsMark Rothko is most famous for his paintings that are made up of large, flat areas of color.
- #2

Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz
b. 1824
HPI 61.1826 langsBaltic German painter (1824-1902)
- #3

Vilhelms Purvītis
1872 - 1945
HPI 59.4020 langsLatvian artist (1872-1945)
- #4

Janis Rozentāls
1866 - 1916
HPI 59.0921 langsLatvian painter (1866-1916)
- #5

Vija Celmins
b. 1938
HPI 55.1519 langsAmerican artist (born 1938)
Overlapping Lives
Which Painters were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Painters since 1700.
