Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling - Artist Info

About Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling

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Wilhelm Alfred Genrikhovich Eberling
  • 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.

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