Latvia - 5 Euro - 150th birthday of Vilhelms Purvītis and his creative work - Silver - Proof - 2022

Specifications
Face value: 5 euro
Weight: 31.47 g
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Metal: silver of fineness .925
Quality: proof; colour print on the obverse
Maximum mintage: 4 000
Struck in 2022 by Lietuvos monetu kalykla (Lithuania)

In original box wit certificate

Reproduction of the painting "Winter" by Vilhelms Purvītis, using colour print.

This release is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the painter, Vilhelms Purvītis.

Vilhelms Purvītis (1872-1945) was one of the key figures of Latvian visual art in the first half of the 20th century, and the founder and modernizer of Latvian landscape painting.

The obverse features a colorized reproduction of the painting “Winter," with elements such as the majestic lacy birch trees, the glistening lake, and the overcast winter sky. The painting has been transferred to the coin using glaze, texture and mirror surface, of varying intensity.

The reverse shows the plaster model of the same painting with several types of surfaces, worked in different ways, to a more or less intensified glaze effect.