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Latvian painter, graphic artist, sculptress, illustrator, writer. Descended from Rabbi Abram Awerbuck of Courland, who took the surname of Keyleman in memory of his late wife Keyla (early 18th century). Born in Riga (1887) in the family of Jewish dentists Isidor Isaak Noak Philipp Keilmann (1856 – 1942) and his cousin Eugenie Kantorowitz (1869 – 1941). Baptised as a Protestant at the Burgkirche i...