Photographer Zenta Dzividzinska and painter Juris Tifentals lived and worked between Riga, the capital city of Latvia, and Iecava, a village about 40 km from Riga.

Iecava home

Selected photographs of their Iecava home, made by Zenta Dzividzinska.

Iecava mementos

Few mementos from the artists’ Iecava home after their passing. Photos in this section are from 2013 when the house had to be sold off.

Riga home

Photographs of the artists’ Riga apartment on Avotu Street where they lived until the death of Juris Tifentals in 2001.

Riga mementos

Few mementos from the artist’s Riga home, some of which appear in paintings by Juris Tifentals.

Book collection

Browse the artists’ extensive book collection, comprising books on art, literature, nature, and science as well as cookbooks. The collection gives you a good idea about what kind of intellectual resources were available in Soviet Latvia between the 1960s and 1980s.