Robert Landarsky

Robert Landarsky (born 1 April 1936) is a contemporary Belarusian artist. In 1979 he was awarded the Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR.

Early life
Robert Landarsky was born in Gomel in 1936, a town in southern Belarus.

Education
Robert Landarsky studied at Belarusian State Academy of Arts, from which he graduated in 1958. In 1966 he graduated from the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Repin in St. Peresburg. In 1979, Robert Landarsky was admitted to the Belarusian Union of Artists.



Robert Landarsky and Dmitry Oleynik (1929-2003), Nikolai Kazakevich (born 1934) created a new branch of Gomel art school called “Gomel impressionism”. Cheerful atmosphere, bright vivid colors and the absence of blackness. Robert Landarsky remembers the reaction at republican exhibitions: "... everyone used to visit our place at exhibitions to see our works. They differed from the rest art. Painter Dmitry Poliankov compared the works by the most of artists with “brown oven doors”. But our canvases were vivid." At the beginning there were a lot of criticism from the elder artists, but rather soon their manner got its audience as well as followers.

Paintings
The paintings of Robert Landarsky is dominated by bright colors. It shows the influence of the Impressionists as Monet.

Honours
2003 Robert Landarsky was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR.

Collections
Robert Landarsky's works are held in the following public collections:


 * Belarusian National Arts Museum, Minsk.
 * The funds of the Belarusian Union of Artists.
 * Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
 * Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt.
 * Museum New Brunswick, USA.
 * Museum of Modern Art, Mogilev.
 * Museum of Modern Art, Vienne.

He has works in private collections in countries including France, Japan, US, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Estonia.