- Robert Falk
Robert Rafailovich Falk ( _ru. Роберт Рафаилович Фальк,
1886 -October 1 ,1958 ) was aRussia n painter.Biography
Falk was born in
Moscow in 1886. In 1903 to 1904 he studied art in the studios ofKonstantin Yuon andIlya Mashkov , in 1905 to 1909 he studied at theMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture withKonstantin Korovin andValentin Serov .In 1910 he was of the founders and the most active participants of artistic group Jack of Diamonds. The group considered
Paul Cézanne the only painter worth following, and the rest of visual art to be too trivial and bourgeois. The distinctive feature of Falk's paintings of the time was "sculpturing" of the form using many layers of different paints.In 1918-1928 Falk taught at
VKhUTEMAS (State Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops). In 1928 Falk went on a supposedly short trip toFrance and refused to return; he worked inParis until 1938, when he returned to Moscow.After 1938 until his death in 1958 he worked in Moscow, most of the time in isolation. His works of that time were in neo-impressionist style with characteristic "white-on-white" colors (not unlike the later paintings of his teacher
Valentin Serov ).During the
Khrushchev Thaw he became popular among young painters and many considered Falk to be the main bridge between the traditions of the Russian and French Moderne of the beginning of 20th century and Russian avant-garde and the Russian avant-garde of the 1960s.External links
* [http://www.vashdosug.ru/person_page/11768/ Biography]
* [http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Horizons/Ru/bio-423.html Webpage]
* [http://www.vestnik.com/issues/2004/0414/win/vidre.htm Kena Vidre, Memoirs about Falk]
* [http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=226 Robert Falk Gallery at MuseumSyndicate]
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