Latvian graphic artist. Attended an art school in Riga, but due to WWI had to evacuate to St Petersburg in 1915. While in Russia, Suta resumed his art studies and met many other Latvian and Russian artists including Aleksandra Belcova his future wife, Nathan Altman and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In December 1917 Suta returned to Latvia and in 1919 became member of Expressionist group which in 1920 transformed to Riga Artists Group. After getting married in 1922, Suta and Belcova traveled throughout Europe and upon returning to Riga introduced the Latvian public to ideas of Cubism and Constructivism. They opened porcelain painting studio Baltars in 1924, but it closed in 1929 due to financial problems. 

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