Architect. He will be best remembered for his style of Architecture during the Art Nouveau Movement. He was born into a family of servants in Liezēre Parish, Russian Empire, (now Latvia) on March 5, 1873. He was educated locally at Liezēre Parish School in Liezēre, Latvia, and Cecis City School in Cecis, Latvia, and then studied civil engineering at the Riga Technical Institute (later the Riga Technical Institute) in Riga, Latvia, beginning in 1891. During this time, he collected materials on Latvian folk construction and applied art in North Kurzeme, Latvia, and he also participated in the organization of a Latvian ethnographic exhibition in Riga, Latvia. He then worked in the office of the prominent architect Konstantīns Pēkšēns from 1895 and 1905, and during this time he continued with his studies at the Riga Technical Institute (later the Riga Technical Institute) in Riga, Latvia, beginning in 1898. Unfortunately, he never finished his studies in architecture but he did pass the architecture examination at the Technical Committee for Construction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was able to secure a permit to run a building practice in 1902. He opened up his own architectural design office in 1905. During his distinguished architectural career, he designed over 70 multi-story apartment buildings in Riga, Latvia, and also a number of churches and other buildings in and around Riga, Latvia, including Aleksandra Čaka Street 55 and 70, Blaumaņa Street 31, Brīvības Street 58 and 61 (Corner House), Ernests Birznieks Upītis 18 and 18a, Pasture dam 3 k-1, Gertrudes Street 26 and 86, Krišjāņa Barona Street 30, 37 (there was Aleksandrs Vanags construction office) and 62, Krišjāņa Valdemāra Street 69, and Zvaigznu Street 2 and 24, that were mostly of a National romantic style of Art Nouveau architecture. He also built the buildings of Kuldīga Agricultural Society (1908), Liezēre Agricultural Society (1908), Bulduri Horticultural School (1912), Priekuli Agricultural School (1912), Jaunjelgava Commercial School, Lielvārde and Strenči Secondary School buildings, Rūjiena Agricultural Association, and many parish houses and residential buildings in Aluksne, Jurmala, Plavinas, Tartu and Tukums, and other buildings. At the outbreak of World War I, he worked for the road construction department of the Imperial Russian Army during the German occupation by German troops of Riga, Latvia, beginning in 1917. He was elected a Member of the Provincial Videzeme Land Council on December 22, 1917, and he also helped to organize an exhibition in Berlin, Germany, about Latvian art beginning in 1918. Following World War I, he returned to Riga, Latvia, and worked with the building department of the Riga Workers "Deputies" Council during the Communist occupation and after the establishment of The Socialist Soviet Republic of Latvia (or LSPR), from February 1919 to March 10, 1919. He was arrested and executed by firing squad at the Riga Central Prison in Riga, Latvia, on March 19, 1919, at the age of 46, a victim of the so-called Bolshevik "Red Terror" for "counterrevolutionary activities." He was buried in the 1 Meza kapi in Riga, Latvia, where other famous Latvian personalities are also laid to rest.