Society and culture: The exhibition of works of by Swiss artists Paul Robert presented in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "Paul Robert Gallery on the pages of the "St. Petersburg newspaper"" opened on February 5, 2015 at the Museum of Printing in St. Petersburg.

The exhibition of works by Swiss artist Paul Robert (1867-1934) represents more than 100 cartoons on the famous St. Petersburg of the XIX-XX centuries, created by the artist for the "St. Petersburg newspaper".

P. Robert arrived in St. Petersburg from the native Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1885. For over thirty years he served in the French drama troupe performs on stage of the Imperial Mikhailovsky Theatre. In 1918, due to the revolutionary events he left Russia and returned to Switzerland.

P. Robert was seriously engaged in the visual arts, painted with oil, successfully exhibited and sold them, but especially brightly his talent was developed as a painter. Artist’s albums were very popular "Our French artists. Cartoons and autographs of the artists of the Mikhailovsky Theatre" (1896) and, in particular, "All Petersburg in Cartoons" (1903).

As a cartoonist P. Robert collaborated with the "Petersburg newspaper". The exhibition features enlarged copies of cartoons of the artist, made with newspaper publications in 1902-1917 period. Of particular interest there is the gallery of figures of municipal government (over 70 cartoons).

Caricatures by P. Robert, differing with observation, easily and "kindness" to the hero, are the modern viewer living images of many famous St. Petersburg.