Voldemārs Matvejs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1877
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Date of Death: 03-May-1914
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Voldemārs Matvejs
- Voldemars Matvejs (1877–1914) was a Latvian artist and art theorist.
- Despite dying in 1914, he was to ave a significant impact on the development of Soviet art.
- Nikolay Punin remarked: "If he had not died so early he would have been the first among us: he knew what was necessary for art better than the others: he saw and understood better than the rest."He had a particular interest in African art and his writing in this area has been compared with that of Carl Einstein.
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