Dainis Lėgenbergas

Jelgava

The wood-working master Dainis Legenbergs was born in 1963. He grew up in the picturesque environs of the Augstroze Manor. In childhood, he was quite industrious, and he was fascinated most of all by machinery. He could spend hours and hours repairing old motor-scooters and automobiles, Having finished eight classes at the Daugufi elementary school in Valmiera district, he entered the
18th professional education school, in which he learned welding. Later, he learned other skills as well, working as a lathe operator, electrician, tractor-driver, and driver. D. Legenbergs makes garden furniture, kitchen tools, sauna barrels, hot tubs, and other items from wood. He is the inventor of a chair-stepladder, or stepladder-chair. His invention can be used as a chair, a shelf or stand, and
as a stepladder. D. Legenbergs has participated in various exhibitions organised
at the Ifipsala exhibition hall, including "Balttour", "Meja" (House), "Amatnieciba" (Craftsmanship) and others. Dainis usually sells the items he produces in folk art fairs organised in various cities. Of these, the very largest is the fair organised by the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum. It occurs annually during the first weekend in June.

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