Jēkabs Bīne (11 April 1895 – 24 October 1955) was a Latvian painter, stained glass artist, teacher and art critic.
In the 1920s he painted Christian subjects, including the altarpieces for the churches in Cesvaine (1924), Jumprava [lv] (1926) and Vecsaule (1927).
His focus on sacral painting developed into an interest in Latvian mythology, idealism and an ambition to connect art to folk culture and nature.
Bīne's diaries show that he was disappointed with the direction the Soviet authorities set out for the arts, and that he viewed it as vulgarization.
[5] Bīne's 1931 painting Dievs, Māra, Laima, depicting three gods from Latvian mythology, remains one of the most prominent examples of Dievturi iconography.