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Jakob Belsen's art in the country of his forefathers remained associated almost exclusively with the ten oil paintings and water-colours shown in the Latvian Art Exhibition of 1910. Now the number of his paintings at the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) in Riga can be counted on one hand. With four works of undisputed authorship and one of doubtful attribution, this is the largest public collection...
Uga Skulme (1895-1963) was one of the leading painters of the Riga Artists' Group, active propagandist of modernist ideas, erudite art critic and historian whose contribution to graphic arts has been hardly explored. His graphic series 'Bible for the Poor' from the 1920s reveal him as a skilled draftsman and creative interpreter of Biblical stories. The series forms part of the interwar developments...
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