Robert Rafailovich Falk - Artist Info

About Robert Rafailovich Falk

  • Biography

    Robert Rafailovich Falk was a Russian painter. He was born in Moscow in 1886. In 1903 to 1904 he studied art in the studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ilya Mashkov; and in 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov.

    In 1910 he was of the founders and the most active participants of artistic group Jack of Diamonds. The group considered Paul Cézanne the only painter worth following, and the rest of visual art to be too trivial and bourgeois. The distinctive feature of Falk's paintings of the time was sculpturing of the form using many layers of different paints.

    In 1918-1928 Falk taught at VKhUTEMAS (State Higher Artistic and...

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