The museum devoted to the artists Romans Suta (1896-1944) and Aleksandra Beļcova (1892-1981) is an affiliate of the Latvian National Museum of Art which is based on the bequest of the two artists’ daughter, the ballet dancer, art historian and television journalist Tatjana Suta (1923-2004). The museum is located in the flat which the family owned after 1935. During her life, Tatjana Suta began to put together a museum dedicated to the two artists in her apartment, improving security, registering the various artworks, and presenting them to students and others who were interested.
Aleksandra Beļcova graduated women gymnasium in Novozybkov in 1912. Later she started studies in Penza city art school which she graduated in 1917. While in Penza she met several Latvian painters who studied there as a refugees. Among them were Jēkabs Kazaks, Konrāds Ubāns and Voldemārs Tone. Especially close relationships developed between her and Romans Suta, another Latvian painter who studied in Penza. In 1917 she goes to Petrograd and studies in State Free Art Workshop under Nathan Altman. It is here in Petrograd where her first solo exhibition is held in 1919. Just after the exhibition she moved to Latvia along with Romans Suta and became a members of the Riga Artists Group. The couple married in 1922 in Riga and after marriage they visited Paris, Berlin and Dresden. In 1923 their daughter Tatiana was born in Paris. In 1925 she painted The White and the Black.
She was involved in the Roller group exhibitions and Riga Graphic Artists Association in the following years. Her paintings were mostly portraits and still lifes, beginning as a Cubist she turned to realism in later years. Her mediums were oil, watercolor, graphic arts and she also painted on porcelain. Flat of Aleksandra Belcova and Romans Suta in Elizabetes street 57A-26 in Riga is now turned into memorial museum and art gallery.
Romans Suta (1896-1944) was a Latvian painter and potter.
Suta was born in Cēsis and worked in Riga with Jūlijs Madernieks. He met and married the painter Aleksandra Beļcova and moved with her to Paris, Berlin and Dresden before settling in Latvia where they introduced the Latvian public to Cubism and where he opened a pottery studio. In 1941, with his staff of the studio he was deported to Moscow, then to Almaty, and finally in Tbilisi where after a show trial he was executed on 14 July 1944.
Suta was posthumously rehabilitated in 1959. The former flat of Aleksandra Belcova and Romans Suta on Elizabetes street 57A-26 in Riga has been turned into the memorial museum and art gallery Sutas un Beļcovas Muzejs with over 4,000 works of art by the couple, mostly donated by their daughter Tatjana Suta.
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