Emil Schultz-Riga

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Emil Schultz-Riga (1872 – 2 November 1931) was a Baltic German-Russian painter connected with the Düsseldorf school. He painted landscapes and also did portraits and floral still lifes. Born in Daugavpils in the Russian Empire, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1892 to 1895, where his teachers included Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, Arthur Kampf and Adolf Schill. Schultz-Riga belonged to the artists’ association Malkasten. With Hans Deiker, Theodor Groll, Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz and others, he helped found the Novembergruppe. He exhibited at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1909. Schultz-Riga died in Düsseldorf.