Brief Biography-Jāzeps Grosvalds was born into a wealthy family and received a first-class education in Riga. He studied art in Berlin and Munich before serving in the imperial army for one year in 1911. His studies took him to Paris, where he went to the private art school La Palette. He returned to Riga in 1914 and co-founded what was to become the Riga Artists Group. The army recalled him in 1915 after a trip to Spain with his brother. He painted a series of life in the military during his entire service abroad. Finally, he finished his duties in the British army, where he became a First Lieutenant and received a Military Cross for his service. He spent his last days working in the Latvian Embassy in Paris, where he contracted Spanish flu and died in 1920.