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Alexander Osmerkin and Robert Falk

Creation period
1967
Place of сreation
the USSR
Dimensions
130x165 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
2
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Max Avadievich Birshtein was a Soviet painter and graphic artist. He graduated from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, where his teacher was the prominent artist and art critic Igor Grabar.

The museum’s collection includes 16 works by Max Birshtein, some of which were donated by the artist himself.

In the 1960s, he worked on a series of portraits of his fellow artists and cultural figures. He described in detail his process of painting one of the portraits — of Alexander Osmerkin and Robert Falk — in his autobiographical book “Life and Paintings” as follows,

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In 1967, I created the painting ‘A.A. Osmerkin in Falk’s Workshop’, where I tried to convey the atmosphere that reigned when these two wonderful artists met: the slouching, the bagginess, the restraint and fatigue of Falk, and Osmerkin’s artistry, his curly hair, the bow, the graceful pose, reminiscent of the dandy of the Pushkin era. All this is against the background of the strangeness, asceticism and artistry of Falk’s studio.

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In the picture-memoir (it was painted after the famous painters passed away) Max Birshtein subtly conveyed the atmosphere of spiritual communication between the masters. Robert Falk’s workshop, located on the top floor of the famous Pertsov house, is dimly lit: the meeting of old friends and colleagues has dragged on, and it is now surely evening. Sculptures, vases, and several canvases are hidden on the shelves, facing the wall.

At the end of 1947, Robert Falk allowed the then-novice painter Max Birshtein to work in his studio for a while. The former describes its interior as follows:

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A twisted iron staircase leads up to the attic, to Falk’s studio, consisting of two rooms of a rather bizarre shape. It is a large workshop. The sloping ceiling is supported by white beams. <…> There are a lot of his paintings here, they stand against the walls, turned away from the wall and lie removed from stretchers in the middle of the workshop on the floor <…> From the workshop window you can see the Kremlin, the Moscow River, and the Stone Bridge.

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Angelina Shchekin-Krotova, Falk’s wife, mentioned in her memoirs that when these two artists met, they always had a heated conversation about art: they talked about painting, poetry and music. Decades later, in this portrait, Birshtein conveys a keen sense of that time, when the talented artists faced many difficulties as their art did not meet the requirements of socialist realism.

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Alexander Osmerkin and Robert Falk

Creation period
1967
Place of сreation
the USSR
Dimensions
130x165 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
2
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