Born Oct. 7, 1930, in Riga. Soviet painter.
Berzins studied at the Academy of Arts of the Latvian SSR in Riga (1952–59) and joined its staff in 1964. His life-affirming pictures depicting the Latvian kolkhoz countryside (On the Daugava and To the Baths, both painted in 1957, property of the USSR Art Fund; Dinner on the Collective Farm, 1954, property of the Latvian SSR Art Fund) are characterized by courageous, romantic images, dynamic composition, fluid generalization, and restrained greenish ochre tones. A heightened awareness of rhythm and color is emerging in his latest works (Fishing Dock, 1967, for example).