Artist Falk biography

Robert Falk. The painting “Courtyard in the Crimea”, in OM, Robert Falk goes travel and visits several cities of Italy in a year.

The arrival of the Bolsheviks to power is the beginning of the elevation of the artist - before his painting did not cause much interest among the public. The revolution has changed this: Falk is recognized and swarmed by the Soviet government, occupies high positions, its work is exhibited at foreign and international exhibitions. Since the year, the master has been in the role of a theater artist.

The painting "Naked", a year is a turning point for Falk. He leaves for Paris to study French painting and limits the connection with former compatriots as much as possible. The master is completely devoted to art, while only sometimes exhibited in the salons of independent, autumn, Tuileries, more often in galleries of private individuals. The master is returning to Soviet Russia in terrible time.

In the yard of the city of Damocles, the sword hangs over everyone. Fortunately, Robert Falk had passed the arrest-largely thanks to the friendship with the hero of Yumashev, the master, the master met in France. The painting "Women's Portrait", the authorities were unhappy with the work of Falk. The masters accused formalism, his creative activity prevented. In the year, the artist’s son dies at the front, and this event completely gives up the painter.

From that moment on, he begins to fade away. The situation is exacerbated by persecution, which was launched by the Union of Artists - neither the master nor his work, in their opinion, fit into a happy Soviet reality. For all forgotten, abandoned, the painter continues to draw in his workshop, in Moscow. The painting "Red Furniture", the most famous paintings by Robert Falk, the master wrote many works that today are the decoration of galleries and private collections.

Among them are works of different genres - landscapes, still lifes, portraits and even theatrical scenery. The most famous paintings of Robert Falk: The Moscow Courtyard on the winter landscape depicts a typical quiet Moscow courtyard of the beginning of the last century. The picture is written in the impressionist style. The muffled thick colors of the masterpiece make it chamber and lyrical.

The picture depicts a sitting woman in a red blouse. Her pose is relaxed, and her face is calmly “red furniture” the picture appeared in a difficult period for the master. Therefore, the color scheme and the location of objects cause a feeling of anxiety. Portrait of the artist’s beloved woman - Lyubov Georgievna Pupleska. They met in G. for the sake of this woman, the master almost left his wife Elizabeth Potekhin.

But it did not happen - Pleska was already married and a new marriage was not part of her plans. And after death, at the notorious exhibition, Go Khrushchev humiliated his work. Nevertheless, time spent everything in place. Today, the masters are known and loved. During the years of oblivion, the master had to earn extra money as a theater designer, trying to make ends meet. Today, his masterpieces beat records at world auctions.

Justice triumphed.