Ādolfs Alunāns

Adolfs Alunāns (11 October 1848 – 5 July 1912) was a Latvian actor, director and playwright.

[2] Adolfs Alunāns was born in Jelgava, a town in Russian Empire (in present-day Latvia).

In 1885, Alunāns stepped down and returned to live in his hometown Jelgava, where he continued to work as an actor, writer and journalist.

[6] The artist died on 5 July 1912, in Jelgava where he was buried in cemeteries Jāņa Kapi (today Park d'Alunāns).

Stolen twice in the time of independent Latvia, the bronze bas-relief executed by the sculptor Burkards Dzenis, the twice was found by the police in the spinning of scraps.