1883 (according to other sources, 1891, Riga) (Riga) — 3 February 1938 (near Moscow)
1883 Born in Riga (according to other sources, 1891, Riga).
Studied in the Riga City art school.
1917-1922 Served for the Red Guards and the Red 7th of the Latvian Rifle Regiment.
1922 entered into the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops (Higher Art School), who graduated in the class Korovin in 1924.
In 1925, Anderson became a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Became a professor of Higher Art.
At the exhibition of the artist began on display since 1918, participated in the exhibition on the tenth anniversary of the Red Army.
As a representative of the small peoples of the USSR Anderson was a member of the Latvian labor artistic commune, where the number and the representatives of the avant-garde. Attended Latvian society "Prometheus».
In 1937, Anderson's one of the first arrested, among others, the Communards in the standard charges of belonging to a counter-revolutionary fascist terrorist organization that supposedly existed in "Prometheus. Taganskaya suspect kept in jail.
1938 was shot . He was buried at Butovo range.
Artist's paintings are in the Museum of the Revolution, the Museum of the Red Army and other museums in Russia, as well as in private collections.