Painter. Portrait and landscape painter and still life artist. From 1903-1904 studied at the K.F.Yuon and I.I.Mashkov art studios, from 1905-1912 at the MSPSA under V.A.Serov and K.A.Korovin. Member of the Jack of Diamonds (1910-1917), World of Art (1911-1912), Society of Moscow Artists (1925-1928) and AHRR (1925-1928) groups. During 1918-1928 he taught painting in the first GSHM–All-Russia Art and Technology Workshops-All-Russia Art and Technology Institute. From 1928-1938 he lived and worked in Paris. Between 1941-1943, during the Great Patriotic War he lived in Middle Asia and taught painting at the Uzbek Art College. R.R.Falk’s creative ideas were established by the end of the 1910s, he was influenced by late Impressionism, Primitivism and the painting of P.Cezanne. As a member of the Jack of Diamonds society he was fascinated by experiments involving combining constructive forms and emotional expressiveness in colour. Later dramatic contrasts and juxtapositions of form and colour gave way in his creative work, to a softer and more restrained approach, rich in subtle colour. The artist did not regard the subject as the most important component in the work, it was, as he put it himself, the experience of the "plasticity event". The master was true to his artistic principles during a period when Socialist Realism dominated art. Many young painters who attended, during the late 1940s-1950s, at higher artistic institutions regarded Falk as their true teacher. The doors of his studio were always open for them. They learned not only the secrets of the trade but also an uncompromising attitude to art.