Template:Did you know nominations/Hilda Vīka
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 16:25, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hilda Vīka
- ... that the painter and writer Hilda Vīka was involved in Latvian neopaganism and used Latvian mythology in her works? Source: "Latvian myth characters and themes came into H. Vika's creative work after 1930 when she married writer and reviewer Viktors Eglitis and resorted to 'Dievturība' (Latvian Neopagan religious movement based on folklore, old folk songs and mythology)." (Arts and Music in Cultural Discourse. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference)
- ALT1:... that Hilda Vīka was expelled from Soviet Latvia's artist union because of "remnants of formalism" in her paintings? Source: "In 1945, painter joined the Artists' Union of the Latvian SSR (AUL), from which she was expelled in 1950 'for remnants of formalism in her oeuvre'." (Latvian National Museum of Art)
Created by Ffranc (talk). Self-nominated at 13:32, 18 October 2021 (UTC).
Interesting life, on fine sources, all Latvian and accepted AGF. How do you feel about an infobox? I like the original hook - displayign her active - much better than the ALT. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:24, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
