Robert Rafailovich Falk (Russian: Роберт Рафаилович Фальк, October 15, 1886 – October 1, 1958) was a Russian and Soviet avant-garde painter.
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| Born | Robert Rafailovich Falk 27 October 1886 Moscow, Russia |
| Died | 1 October 1958 (aged 71) Moscow, Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture[1] |
| Style | Neo-Impressionist |
| Movement | Knave of Diamonds Arts Association |
Biography
editFalk was born in Moscow in 1886. In 1903 to 1904 he studied art in the studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ilya Mashkov, in 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov.
In 1910, Falk was one of the founders and the most active participant of the artistic group Jack of Diamonds.[2] 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 to France and refused to return; he worked in Paris 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 Falk became popular among young painters and many considered him 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.
There are numerous paintings by Falk in the New Tretyakov Art Museum in Moscow.
Style
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Robert Falk was influenced by Rembrandt in his use of color and light. Falk considered Rembrandt to be the most significant influence on his own work, even more than that of Cézanne.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Getashvili, Nina (2024). "Rembrandt and Russian Jewish Artists". In KNOTTER, MIRJAM; SCHWARTZ, GARY (eds.). Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist's Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 203–220. doi:10.2307/jj.9827016.14. ISBN 978-94-6372-818-8. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ King, Averil (June 2011). "Birth of the Russian Avant-Garde". Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors. 173 (588): 78–84. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
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