Architects

Augusts Reinbergs

March 28, 1860, Riga – July 30, 1908, Līgatne Parish, Jaunrauna Manor

An architect August Reinberg from 1877 to 1882 he studied at RPI. In 1883, he worked as an assistant to the architect and academician Robert August Pflug in Riga. In 1894, he obtained a degree of an artist of Category II from the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. From 1885 to 1886 and from 1888 to 1889, he was an assistant in descriptive geometry at RPI. He was also a drawing teacher in Riga Secondary School. Between 1890 and 1899, Reinberg worked as an architect in Saint Petersburg and then in Riga again. He was also a chairman of the Riga Architect Society and an assistant professor in RPI (since 1905). Among Reinberg’s works deserving a special mention there are Old Riga (a romanticised large-scale replica of a medieval Riga made for the 700th Anniversary Exhibition, 1901), the Bank of Latvia, the Second City Theatre of Riga and several residential buildings in Riga, a mental asylum in Strenči, a building of the Credit Bank in Tallinn and Mooste Manor in Estonia, Põlva Area.