Robert Pikelny

1904-1986

Robert Pikelny was born to a Jewish family in Lodz, Poland in 1904 and in 1908, the family moved to Moscow.

Pikelny studied at the Moscow School of Fine Art, and then at the age of 17 he went to Paris, intending to settle there permanently.

There were some difficulties at the beginning of his career. In 1922, he traveled to Vienna and Berlin, where he met Jean Pougny who became his friend, and this friendship helped to make himself become known in Paris.

In 1923, Pikelny arrived in Paris and settled in the atelier next to Pougny's on Rue du Moulin de Beurre. Pougny introduced him to the Russian Artists Society in which Païles, Kikoïne and Pougny himself took par...