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Jesus Christ meets his mother, Mary
The artist Eduards Sidrabs (1898-1963) was arrested on 28 January 1949 and sentenced on 27 August to 10 years in a correctional labour camp for hiding and procuring documents for Jānis Budulis, the correspondent for a newspaper during the Nazi occupation.
Imprisoned in Moscow, Ozerlag prison camp (Irkutsk Region, Soviet Russia), Komi ASSR – in Vorkuta and Inta until 1956.
E. Sidrabs became known when, in 1956, after official liberation in Inta, he created the monument Homeland (Dzimtenei) in memory of the Baltic prisoners who died there.
After returning to Latvia, he worked both on both shaped and round sculptures, using wood, chamotte and terracotta.
He fulfilled several orders for sculptures in the churches of Līksna, Viļaka and Daugavpils.
A sketch from the album by Eduards Sidrabs "Prototypes of stations of Catholic churches (Via Dolorosa)" ("Katoļu baznīcu staciju (Krusta ceļa) makets"). 4th station of the Cross: Jesus Christ meets his mother, Mary. Collection of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.
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