Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling, was a successful painter and photographer in the early 20th century. A pupil of Ilya Repin, he never deviated from realism (in the broad sense of the word) and left a... Read full biography
Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling, was a successful painter and photographer in the early 20th century. A pupil of Ilya Repin, he never deviated from realism (in the broad sense of the word) and left a number of striking works executed in the painterly two-dimensional manner typical of that time.... Read full biography
Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling, was a successful painter and photographer in the early 20th century. A pupil of Ilya Repin, he never deviated from realism (in the broad sense of the word) and left a number of striking works executed in the painterly two-dimensional manner typical of that time. Eberling’s portraits, entirely in the spirit of salon art in terms of imagery and not devoid of a chocolate-box prettiness, were always marked by refined, often unexpected combinations of colors. We know... Read full biography
Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling, was a successful painter and photographer in the early 20th century. A pupil of Ilya Repin, he never deviated from realism (in the broad sense of the word) and left a number of striking works executed in the painterly two-dimensional manner typical of that time. Eberling’s portraits, entirely in the spirit of salon art in terms of imagery and not devoid of a chocolate-box prettiness, were always marked by refined, often unexpected combinations of colors. We know that Eberling’s models often came from the world of the theatre. Before 1917 he had produced around 100 pictures of this kind. It is quite possible that the unknown young woman in the Hermitage portrait also belonged to St Petersburg’s thespian bohemia.... Read full biography