Robert Falk

Poetic Dedications by Boris Slutsky and Tatiana Selvinskaya

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Poetic Dedications by Boris Slutsky (The Old Blue) and Tatiana Selvinskaya (Robert Falk)

Poetic Dedications by Boris Slutsky and Tatiana Selvinskaya

Robert FALK. Self-portrait in Grey Shirt. 1950
Robert FALK. Self-portrait in Grey Shirt. 1950
Oil on canvas. 92.5 × 72.5 cm. © National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

Robert Falk’s solo exhibitions. AN OVERVIEW OF 1924-1969

Yulia Didenko

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The major exhibition of works by Robert Falk in the New Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val was an event long awaited by all connoisseurs of the Master’s works. It marked the 135th year of the artist’s birth and it was much more representative of his work than any of his exhibitions held over the past three decades. In terms of the showcased material, it may, in many respects, be compared with another significant exhibition of Falk’s works, which was held from February to March, 1993, in the halls of the Benois Building of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In terms of the artist’s Moscow retrospectives, the current exhibition’s forerunner is an exhibit- ion, rather sensational and grandiose for its time, which was held at the hall of the Moscow Union of Artists in Begovaya Street (this story awaits the reader ahead).

Robert Falk’s solo exhibitions. AN OVERVIEW OF 1924-1969

Robert Falk in My Life

Marina Prozorova

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The memories of Falk shared by Marina Prozorova are mostly associated with her parents, who used to be the artist’s closest friends: the translator and musicologist Jerzy Kucharski and the architect Natalya Prozorova. A Russianized Pole, the son of the Polish communist and engineer Richard Szade, Jerzy Kucharski lost his parents very early: they died in the torture chambers of the NKVD. “I may be unlucky in many things,” he used to say, “but I have always been lucky to have good people around me”. And indeed he was – he was good friends with figures such as Sviatoslav Richter, Robert Falk, Artur Fonvizin, Aleksander Vedernikov, and Heinrich Neuhaus”.

Robert Falk in My Life

The story of Zoya Kalatozova, model to Robert Falk

Lilia Kalatozova, Yulia Kalatozova

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The portraits painted by Robert Falk in the early 1950s, the last decade of his life, reveal the artist’s interest in the faces of young ladies’ faces and the feminine grace of his young models. During that period, he created a number of paintings depicting girls and young women, among them “Portrait of Lenina Rabinovich” (1950, Orlov Art Gallery), “Portrait of Olga Severtseva” (1950-1951, Olga Severtseva collection, Moscow), and “Portrait of Irina Glinka” (1951-1952, National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan) and so on. Falk’s fourth (and last) wife, Angelina Shchekin-Krotova, jokingly gave this period of his art the Proustian title “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Bloom”.

The story of Zoya Kalatozova, model to Robert Falk

Robert Falk. A CHAPTER FROM "AROUND THE GABRICHEVSKYS", A MEMOIR

Olga Severtseva

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The recollections of the art historian Olga Severtseva touch on a memorable event from her youth, when in 1950-1951 she sat for an oil portrait by Robert Falk. Falk was a friend of Olga’s relatives - her aunt Natalya Severtsova, an actor and artist, and Natalya’s husband, the eminent philosopher, art scholar and artist Aleksander Gabrichevsky. An academic and intellectual of encyclopaedic knowledge, who studied art history, philosophy of art and architectural theory, alongside literary translation, German studies, music, and aesthetics, Aleksander Gabrichevsky was unable to fulfil many of his scholarly goals during the tragic decades of the Stalin regime. He was arrested three times, in 1930, 1935 and 1941; twice, 1935-1936 and 1942-1944, he was exiled for his “cosmopolitan and anti-patriotic writings”, and in 1949 he was ousted from the Academy of Architecture, where he worked as a department head.

Robert Falk. A CHAPTER FROM "AROUND THE GABRICHEVSKYS", A MEMOIR

"The treetops reflect the sky". MEMORIES OF ROBERT FALK

Isai Zeitman

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The painter Isai Mikhailovich Zeitman (1899-1996) lived a very long life that spanned almost the entire 20th century. His artistic longevity is amazing: his first work, a painting titled “Oak”, is dated 1917, and the last, the watercolour “Farewell Brushstroke”, was created 79 years later, in the year of his death.

"The treetops reflect the sky". MEMORIES OF ROBERT FALK

The painter Isai Mikhailovich Zeitman[1] (1899-1996) lived a very long life that spanned almost the entire 20th century. His artistic longevity is amazing: his first work, a painting titled “Oak”, is dated 1917, and the last, the watercolour “Farewell Brushstroke”, was created 79 years later, in the year of his death.

"I love coming into this haven..."

Elena Levina

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Elena Borisovna Levina chose as the title for her recollections the line from a poem by Ksenia Nekrasova, “I love coming into this refuge,” since no-one else had so accurately and poetically captured the special atmosphere of the studio where Robert Falk and his wife, Angelina Vasilyevna, lived. Nekrasova was friends with the couple and visited their home often. There, she found refuge and became the life model for one of Falk’s finest portraits.

"I love coming into this haven..."

Elena Borisovna Levina chose as the title for her recollections the line from a poem by Ksenia Nekrasova[1], “I love coming into this refuge,” since no-one else had so accurately and poetically captured the special atmosphere of the studio where Robert Falk and his wife, Angelina Vasilyevna, lived. Nekrasova was friends with the couple and visited their home often. There, she found refuge and became the life model for one of Falk’s finest portraits.

“An Unforgettable Friend and a Comrade-in-Art”. PARISIAN ENCOUNTERS WITH ROBERT FALK

Tatiana Verkhovskaya

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ROBERT FALK (1886 - 1958)
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The memoirs of the artist Tatiana Mikhailovna Verkhovskaya (known as Tatiana Hirshfeld in 1895-1980 due to marriage) are now being published for the first time. Like Robert Falk, she graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, having studied under Konstantin Korovin. In 1939, she joined the Artists’ Union of the USSR and later became famous, largely for her work on theatrical sets and costumes for many venues, including the private Korsh Theatre, the Moscow Satire Theatre, the Moscow Operetta, and the Bolshoi Theatre.

“An Unforgettable Friend and a Comrade-in-Art”. PARISIAN ENCOUNTERS WITH ROBERT FALK

"Hit by an Avalanche of Art". MEETINGS WITH ROBERT FALK

Elizaveta Zeldovich-Galperina

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The artist Elizaveta Zeldovich’s (married name Galperina, 1902-1985) memories of Falk are published here for the first time. This material belongs to that special genre of “oral history”. The excerpt from the conversation with Zeldovich-Galperina presented to the reader here was originally recorded using a tape recorder on March 5, 1981, by the legendary philologist Viktor Duvakin.[1] Duvakin gathered a unique collection of oral memoirs on the history of Russian culture in the first half of the 20th century, which became the foundation for the oral history department of the Academic Library at Moscow State University.[2] Duvakin approached the artist upon the advice of her friend at the gymnasium, Elena Konstantinovna Osmerkina (nee Galperina, first wife of the artist Osmerkin), with whom Duvakin had spoken in 1980.

"Hit by an Avalanche of Art". MEETINGS WITH ROBERT FALK

MEMORIES OF THE ARTIST: "The man behind the art"

Vera Prokhorova

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Published here for the first time is a series of oral recollections of Falk by Vera Prokhorova, philologist and teacher (1918-2013), recorded by Dmitri Borisovich Sporov, who followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Viktor Duvakin.

MEMORIES OF THE ARTIST: "The man behind the art"
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