Museum of Romans Suta and Aleksandra Belcova

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  The new museum devoted to the artists Romans Suta (1896-1944) and Aleksandra Beļcova (1892-1981) is an affiliate of the Latvian National Museum of Art. The new museum is dedicated to two prominent figures in the History of Latvian art - representatives of Classical modernism.
  
  
  
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  Both Suta and Belcova began their lives as artists at the Penza School of Art. They were both graduated in 1917 and spent a bit of time in Petrograd. Both Suta and Belcova studied French and Russian modern art in Russia, and this had much to do with their future work.
  
  
  
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  In the 1920s, both were influanced by French Cubism.
  
  
  
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  Suta established a close relationship with number of modern artists Ame'de'e Ozenfant, Le Courbusier, Louis Marcoussis and Juan Gris.
  
  
  
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  Romans Suta produced designs which displayed motifs from Latvian ethnography and everyday life. Aleksandra Beļcova's porcelain were shows iconic religious designes, ethnographic motifs from Slavic, Latvian and even African nation.
  
  
  
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  Porcelain ware from the Baltars workshop was exhibited widely and was much prised at the local and the international level. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1925, ir received two gold and one bronze medal and several of the artworks were purchased by the National Museum of Ceramics in Se'vre.
  
  
  

Cubism in Latvian Art

• Compilers: Māra Lāce, Dace Lamberga, Laila Bremše, Zigurds Konstants.
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  Brought together for the first time in a single volume are articles and images relating to Cubism in Latvian Art, the most important expression of the quest for new approaches in Latvian Art during the first third of the 20th century. The catalogue is particularly valiable since it includes biographies of all the artists connected with the movement and reproductions of  all known  works belonging it.
  
  
  
• In Latvian and English.
• 140.pp.29x24cm.40 colour and 68 b/w illustrations.