Leo Mezhberg

[Tana]

VYACHESLAV thanks, interesting story .. and still a small world!

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Works Mezhberga Odessa period оочень I like.

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These memories can be read again, again ...
Here is an excerpt, just a few paragraphs. Bottom link to the entire text, you begin to read - there's no way.



         Odessa sun, sea, sand, shells, pebbles, gobies, horse mackerel, with a gentle sea breeze of meeting with the steppe wind, literally on the side of sea cliffs commit to some Hellenic harmony, easy, fun, easy and passionately love the game! The combination of these two blows creates extraordinary talents. Odessa - a very young town, barely appeared youthful bloom, but her eyes sparkled and had born to her talents in some southern frenzy ready to give people their talent. In Odessa, like in any city in any state revered talents. This kind of Odessa's disease, madness. It is enough to walk on the streets of Odessa, two or three hours to feel that you were at the concert; It literally from every window rushing sounds of the violin, piano, flute or pipes. For two hours you can listen to like a little of the history of music. And in secluded corners or on a busy intersection, you will find an artist with painter's case and, of course, a crowd of curious, give advice, how to write, and sometimes actively picking hand. Odessa - a completely different planet - a separate state - and perhaps formed nationality. If the sea - it is the Greeks, Turks, Italians, French and British and overseas Jews scattering time, and steppe - it is the Scythians, Ukrainian, Russian, Baltic states and various fleeting, you can imagine what a wonderful child can give birth to the union of two winds. Odessa was a free city, all the colors of the world settled in the Odessa harbor, all shimmered and sparkled under the southern sun. A newborn born in Odessa, as the Ukrainians say - nemovlyatko, with mother's milk imbibed this polyglot symphony of all languages and colors of the world. We odessite from birth craving for beauty. If Odessa drayman could stand one day in the queue at the opera house to play with Enrico Caruso (of course, drayman bought two more tickets, to earn some money and to justify the lost hours in the queue, and not to lose all, urinated in a bottle), you can imagine present because of this innate love of beauty. Children of Odessa has hardly stand on his feet, got the chin Skripochka and sitting on pots, preparing for a worldwide smash. Other parents, leaving the opera, leaving her baby alone in the apartment - in bed lozhili album with colored pencils. I was that child, and very grateful to my parents, who, however, could not decide, be it a musician or an artist. When I was three years, during family parties, they dressed me in a sailor, was put on a chair, and I had to sing: "Onegin, I will not hide, I am madly in love Tatiana .." or "Laugh, clown". But this is how some other time. Now I would like to talk about Odessa artists. Odessa experienced ups literary, musical, now, this Renaissance painting in Odessa. So well be circumstances in which the city also live about 20 prominent artists.
And now, living in the West about 13 years old when I was asked: "Are you Russian or Ukrainian artist?", I reply: "I am an artist from Odessa and will always remain, I am part of the Odessa body, sun, sea, sand, I can only reproduce Odessa, nor our incomparable gray color, pours out of me coquinas color and the color of the magical rabbits that play at Odessa homes sheep at sea or washed out clay from the sea coast. " Few people know about Odessa artists. After the Odessa ceased to exist as a free port (duty free city) and overtook the city in 1919, is a "small accident", Odessans somehow adapted to life in the soul holding resentment and hope for a free city, and as they say in Odessa - come to power, the authorities go, but talents are.
I wish the best of my ability to tell, to tell people about the wonderful group of artists in Odessa. I'm not going to divide into groups of artists, groups, belonging to the national enthusiasm, this is not typical for Odessa, forgive me, the artists, in fact, this is not important.
http://b-bbib.narod.ru/tom3b/mejberg1.htm

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Work Mezhberga though sold at auction, but a record price is not yet exceeded 15 thousand dollars.

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Landscapes are good.

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