Kartin.Odessa.mart Spring Exhibition-1914.

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Interest in the Spring exhibition of 1914 in Odessa, I came by accident. Once I got into the hands of several anonymous figures and a theatrical sketch (oil on canvas), as was represented, from the archive, it is forgotten, a participant in this show, then a student OXY, Zinovy ​​Efimovicha milkman. The exhibition was an ambitious artists represented in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Munich group of Kandinsky and other artists participated from Odessa "leftist", including M. Gershenfeld, A. Nurnberg, S. Olesevich. Later I got a catalog with a complete list of participants and their work. By the way, pictures of the ZE Milkman (exhibited at the show four of his graphic work), I was not impressed. Something out of his schedule is on the site "Book Art". Upon further study of the directory has become clear the fate of anonymous theatrical sketch (oil on canvas). It depicts the sea, sky, and two ghostly figures on the shore. Everything is so clear that I immediately remembered AS Pushkin: A scene from Faust.
(Seashore. Faust and Mephistopheles).
        Faust.
I'm bored, bes.
         Mephistopheles.
       What to do, Faust!
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
All reasonable creature misses:
Different from laziness, that the deeds;
Who believe, who have lost faith;
He did not have time to enjoy,
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... "
A nebylo whether theatrical sketches on the theme of "Faust" at the Exhibition of 1914. Yes, there were, and even a few, but not a student of Odessa Art School, and his teacher and organizer of the exhibition, MK Girshenfelda.
LIST is number 19. Sketches of scenery for Goethe's Faust (1913). - 11 pieces.

 Michael Gershenfeld (1880-1939) - painter, graphic artist, stage designer, critic. He received his education in Germany, France, studied painting at the "Academy" in Paris. Friends with neoimpressionistami. Exhibited in the salons of Paris and, according to S. Lipkin, one of the shops, got on the "gold medal for a certain product. Was first presented his work at exhibitions in Odessa Salon B. Izdebsky. Along with Burliuk, L. Grossman, N. Inber, Yushkevich, took part in the evenings and lectures as part of the Salon. In 1913, together with V. Izdebsky organized the Experimental Theatre, "the new drama" and made sketches of scenery for the failed performance of "Faust." Odessa school of painting began to take shape in 1913 when the artist and critic, MK Gershenfeld organized aesthetic circle, whose members sought to attach to Odessa to the artistic culture of the world vanguard. It was he who acted as the leader of the Odessa group. Here's how it looked formulated sredo "Spring Exhibition" 1914: "Every artist is free to create his own pictorial language, which he most emphatically in a loud and strong can attach us to a world of his perception ... In other words, the plot in the film does not matter . Scenic artist's perception of effort, the paint and the line composed of one and not a pattern in this, and not different concept .. "This circle to formalize the Odessa Society of Independent Artists," which lasted only two years - from 1917 to 1919. Odessa Society of Artists was created in the image of the French Society of Independent, style and theme of the works of Jewish artists in tune with the work of French post-impressionism. Almost all participants of the "independent" were at the Odessa Art School of the painter Cyriacus Kostandi in the tradition of southern Russian school of painting.
Author programmatic article "The Art and Joy" and reviews of Odessa artistic life in the years 1913-1917. for the St. Petersburg journal Apollon. Was the teacher of the Free Academy of Fine Arts, organized by the Society of Independent Artists in September 1918, the spring of 1919 after the Soviet takeover in Odessa took part, along with A. Exter, Fazini, Fraermanom, Nuremberg, in the design of the city to the May Day holiday.
The study revealed that most of Odessa "independent" almost did not survive.
In the photo: At the banquet after the close of the spring exhibition of paintings in 1914
Bottom row, from left: first - MK Gershenfeld.
Photos from the family archive simi OB Menaylovoy (Odessa).