Louche Art Nouveau russe en émail cloisonné par Fyodor Rückert. Moscou, 1908-1917

Rückert Friedrich Moritz (Fedor Ivanovich) (1840 - 1917). Friedrich Moritz (Fedor Ivanovich) Rückert was born in Germany in 1840. Came to Russia at the age of 11-13. Subsequently, he did not receive Russian citizenship. He spent his youth under the patronage of Prince Galitsin, who brought him to Russia as an engraver. Fyodor Rückert worked with Carl Fabergé, it was he who performed all the enamel works of the jewelry company.In 1987, he signed a contract with the Faberge firm, the master collaborated with the Moscow branch of the Faberge firm. Rückert′s firm held a leading position among the masters of miniature painting on enamels, from which Faberge received most of the enamels in the Russian style. The date of the beginning of Rückert′s cooperation with Faberge - 1887 - can be determined by the cup in 1912, made for the 15th anniversary of cooperation. In the 1890s and at the beginning of the century, Rückert did many things for Ovchinnikov and Kurlyukov, and later for Marshak in Kiev. What exactly did he do for Faberge before 1903 - 1905? not entirely clear. Very few pieces of his early style with flowers, birds and animals in pastel colors bear the Faberge mark. Most of the things for Faberge were obviously made by him after 1908.From 1910 to 1917 Rückert was the owner of a silverware factory in Moscow (located on Vorontsovskaya Street) in his own house.The creativity of the masters of F. Rückert′s firm at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries significantly enriched the plasticity, language, and self-expression of Russian jewelry art. Showing a completely unique style, inherent to a greater extent to Ruckert, who can be called an innovator, both in technology and in the figurative-plastic presentation of his works.