These impressive deeds of muscles and gears are sung out by a delicate, shy woman, sister of Isaac Rabinovič, one of the most important set designer of the Bolshoi. Together they study in Kiev in the ateliers of Alexander Murashko and of Aleksandra Ekster (1882 – 1949). Together they arrive in Moscow on the wave of the Revolution. In Moscow Rosalia is a student of Robert Falk’s painting class in the prestigious VChUTEMAS school, a famous school of art of the 1920s, somewhat parallel to the German Bauhaus. Under her brother’s wing, who protects her but also hides her talent, Rosalia realizes a series of drawings for fabrics, propaganda panels, posters for the GUM stores, and furthermore sketches for the party diplomas and awards. In 1933 she is teaching in the “Central Art House for Children Education” and the drawings of her students are shown at Paris Expo in 1937 and at the World’s Fair of New York in 1939. After the War, in 1948, she participates to the construction of the Soviet Palace. Since 1950 she teaches in the painting atelier for children in the “Architecture House of Moscow”. After Stalin’s death, she works on more sentimental and intimate themes. The red colour disappears and a palette of faint and delicate colours arises.
At the end of the Stalin period, the propaganda drawings are kept hidden by the artist in her own house, in the Komunalka at n.17 Ulitsa Staraya, in Moscow, where Rosalia Rabinovič has been living since 1929 until the day of her passing, on february 4th 1988, being 92 years old. Only after her death, the drawings from the ‘30 came back to light fortuitously, from one of her nephew’s hands.
1931
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1932
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