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NameBeola
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Birth year1940
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Girnun Ariy (1896-1941)

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SurnameGirnun
NameAriy
Birth year1896
Birth month1
Birth day16
birth_placeKupishki
Death year1941
Death placeRiga

Girnun Ariy (b. 16 January 1896, Kupishki, Kovno Governorate – d. 1941, Riga) – artist.

Ariy Girnun completed six years of gymnasium and went on to study at the Blum School of Art. From 1921 to 1930, he studied at the Latvian Academy of Arts, where he worked in the figurative studio of Professor J.R. Tilbergs.

Girnun painted a portrait of the prominent Daugavpils rabbi I. Rozin (the Rogachover Gaon) and Rabbi Chaim Brisker. His work also included scenes from everyday Jewish life as well as landscapes of Jūrmala and Baldone.

About: Ausstellung juedischer Kunstler in Riga Rigaer Judische Rundschau. 1930. № 5. Apr. S. 3. А. Фейгманис