Voldemārs Matvejs
Voldemārs Matvejs 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 was one of the founders of the Union of Youth in 1908.
He had a particular interest in African art and his writing in this area has been compared with that of Carl Einstein.Matvejs was the art theorist who pioneered the concept of Faktura.Gallery
