Jānis Limans
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{{short description|Latgalian ceramicist}}
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| birth_place = Limani, Latvia
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Jānis Limans (October 1925 – 10 July 1992) was a Latvian and Latgalian ceramicist.{{cite news |last=Pujāts |first=Jānis |title=Silajāņu keramika |publisher=Karogs |edition=6 |page=116 |date=1957-06-01}}
Biography
Jānis Limans was born in Limani village in Rušona Parish, Latvia in 1925.{{cite book |publisher=Latvijas PSR Kultūras ministrija |date=1958 |title=Latgales mākslas izstādes katalogs}} His home village was one of the Silajāņi villages, known for its ceramicists, such as Monika Limane.{{cite web|url=https://www.vestnesis.lv/ta/id/5654|title="Divtūkstoš sveču liesmiņas lai ir mūsu suminājums Latgalei"|website=vestnesis.lv|accessdate=2021-03-09}} He started to work as a ceramicist from 1948.{{cite book |publisher=Latvijas PSR Kultūras ministrija |date=1958 |title=Latgales mākslas izstādes katalogs}}
Limans, alongside Andrejs Paulāns, Polikarps Čerņavskis, Augusts Zagorskis and others, was one of the Latgalian ceramicists that was represented in Silajāņi ceramics exhibitions in Rīga, Daugavpils and other Latvian SSR towns in the 1950s.{{cite news |last=Smelters |first=Mārtiņš |title=Tautas Māksla |publisher=Zvaigzne |edition=2 |page=16 |date=1959-01-15}} In later years, his works were selected for the exhibitions in Latvian SSR and abroad, in Poland.
Jānis Limans died in 1992, in Limani. He is buried in the Eisāgi cemetery.
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