Voldemars Irbe (1893-1944)

Voldemars Irbe learned in the school of German crafts society in Riga (1908 – 11, at B. Dzenis, J. Kuga, A. Cimermanis) and studio of J. Madernieks (1911 – 13).

The years of the First World War he spent in cloister (in Riga, Petersburg, Moscow, Suhumi), traveled, he was in Novocherkask, Novorosijsk etc.
About 1919 artist returned to Riga and for a while he worked as a teacher in elementary schools.

V. Irbe took part in exhibitions since 1914. He made self-exhibitions in 1923, 1932, 1934, 1936, and the entire time artist exhibited works in his studio in Riga.
Memorial exhibitions were made in Riga (1968, 1979, 2005).

He was a very prolific artist and he had seen as the first persistent pastel painter in Latvian art.

Since 1940 V. Irbe was a member of Fine arts cooperative.