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The name of the artist Michael Feferkorna (1889-1914) today said little even to specialists. A boy from a poor family decided to become an artist and enrolled in 1902 at the Odessa Art College and in 1909 finished it, continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Another student of the art school in autumn 1908 Feferkorn first showed at the XIX Exhibition Association of South Russian artists sketches and drawings. The first appearance in public works Feferkorna not gone unnoticed. Critic "Odessa Gazette" Ted, for example, devoted a whole paragraph novice in his review on October 5, 1908. Can not call this a review of praise. But it is important that the reviewer gives a transcript of a blank list of works in the exhibition catalog. And if the jury southern Russian artists at the exhibition had drawings and sketches amateur painter - perhaps, they deserve it: "That's why I can not understand - this is mania maestoso Feferkorna! & Ratings whole baker's dozen, 13 pieces, and all are an insignificant drawings even an entire frame of the outline: a tree branch, leaves, stem, this is very strange. What exactly are the city Feferkorn? Such mastitis celebrity that one stroke of his pen is appreciated by amateurs! I'm surprised the jury of the exhibition to take such work into exhibition. Perhaps these seeds of genius and talent of the artists are interesting, but they do not want the public ".

In St. Petersburg Feferkorn studied painting in poverty. A further three exhibited by Southern Russia, a student at the Academy. In the summer of 1914, before the last course at the Academic give ill and returned home in Odessa. As it turned out to die. In "Little Odessa News, August 11, 1914 appeared modest ad:" My father, brother, sister inform with deep sorrow the death of Misha Feferkorna ... " His death passed almost unnoticed, even South Russian artists, who at the beginning of the war tore annual autumn exhibition, in no way paid tribute to departed artist. Only a year later, in October-November 1915, when the XXV periodic exhibition of the Association of South Russian artists were shown ten etudes Feferkorna, the personality of the artist and his work interested. Several sketches were purchased from the exhibition by local collectors, a strict critic Nicholas Skrotskii wrote about the "joy of life", there is in these works. In Odessa the press came the belated publication of responses to the death Feferkorna. Leo Kamyshnikov, journalist and art critic, while the editor of "Southern Thought" in Odessa, intended to even arrange a posthumous exhibition of the artist. Unfortunately, the exhibition never took place, most likely due to financial difficulties. Four of the M. Ya Feferkorna stored in the Odessa Art Museum, something left in private collections. But the fate of most of the legacy of this is undoubtedly a talented artist, unfortunately, is unknown.

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ARTISTS AND FRAMES
(Southern Gazette. Odessa, 1915, N 4)

Surova fate of the artist Moses Yakovlevich Feferkorna. Fate gave him talent, but led to a half-starved existence. She lit in the heart of a poor Jewish boy striving to art, to painting, made him deeply believe in its future, but when it turned up when behind the eagle's wings have grown, death came and stopped the poor heart of the dreamer-artist.

Feferkorn died at 25 year of his life in August last [1914] year of a heart attack when he was already in the final year of the Academy of Arts ...

His death went unnoticed. And when opened in early October of the current exhibition of paintings by artists of the South Russian society, all interested in sketches of unknown Feferkorna.

His "Park", "Rumyantsev park and sketch" On the Volga, talking about a big and sensitive master of the brush. These studies clearly highlighted at the exhibition and the public around them is a long time. As his talent Feferkorn landscape. /.../Feferkorn left behind many valuable works. All his canvases are stored in a large basket, which the artist before his death brought his parents. This basket brother of the late, before you go to the theater of war, delivered by a local artist KK Kostandi. (The late Feferkorn was the favorite pupil of the artist).

When the exhibition opened Kostandi provided all of the cart at the discretion of the jury. But the exhibition was made just ten etudes Feferkorna, and only because they were ... within ...

/.../Pekerjaan Feferkorna, among other things, interested in local journalist LM Kamyshnikov. Upon request, the Secretary of the society in southern Russian city of artists Stilianudi ordered to deliver from the pantry basket with works Feferkorna. There, over a thousand works. Many of them are of great value.

We managed to view only a few sketches, and they were brighter and stronger than those that were exhibited.

- Why these works are not exhibited? - Unwittingly broke question. And Mr. Stilianudi we said:

- Ram no. A book we have no means ...

When the ways of art insurmountable obstacle grow frame is not it sad? And do not close it art, bound in a frame?

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/.../... I saw the situation in which grew and died young talented artist.

Suburbs (Myasoedovskaya str.). The cellar, filled with pickled cucumbers and watermelons - are selling old Feferkorny.

Above the cellar - a small room. One corner of it littered with rotten watermelons, prepared for the Salk. In another - huge drums with borscht. In the back of the room - bed, wardrobe, chests and table. Stale, putrid air ...

Academy of Arts has sent the elderly Feferkornam groboobrazny box with the academic work of the deceased. And the old man Feferkorn, deploying a huge canvases on the dirt floor, with a sigh, said:

- This is my son drew ...

Voice trembled. Then the old man pointed to a wooden bed.

- At her he died ... He arrived Saturday night from Tver province. He lived there for Academic give ... I said quietly: "Daddy, I'm finally home ..."

That night he died of a heart attack.

Poor Jewish boy, after endless ordeal came to my home to die on his father's bed ...

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