Auseklis Ozols

>Auseklis Ozols 2004-09-22T05:22:14Z D6 adding [[Category:1941 births]] based on [[List of people by name]], see [[Wikipedia:People by year|WP:People by year]] '''Auseklis Ozols''' is an [[United States|American]] [[painter]] and [[Fine Arts]] educator, based in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]. Ozols was born in [[Latvia]] in [[1941]]. He moved to the [[United States|USA]] with his family in 1950. He studied at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts]] and the [[Trenton School of Indurstrial Arts]]. Inspired by the model of [[Thomas Eakins]] and the [[Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts]], Ozols founded the [[New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[1978]] to gather together artists and aspiring artists and teach Classical techniques, stressing working from life. [[As of 2004]], he remains there as both the Director and an instructor. Ozols' work is well regarded by fellow painters. He is noted for being fluent with a wide repertory of artistic techniques and styles seldom mastered by a single individual. ==External links== * [http://www.noafa.com/pages/auseklis.html Auseklis Ozols on New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts site] * [http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Depts/VizArts/ClarkHall/international/Ozols.html Ozols on S.E. Louisiana University site] [[Category:1941 births|Ozols, Auseklis]] [[Category:New Orleanians|Ozols, Auseklis]] [[Category:United States painters|Ozols, Auseklis]]