From 1912 he entered the society "Jack of diamonds", participated in exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1913 in St. Petersburg. the exhibition showed 13 landscapes: "Landscape with pier", "Factory", "Landscape with factory", "Gardens", "Landscape with house by a river", etc. In 1915 the Brittany landscapes and still lifes were exhibited at the exhibition "1915 year". Avant-garde, ALM. "Moscow masters" (1916) reproduced the picture. M "Town by the sea. Brittany". In 1917 participated in the 23rd exhibition Mosk. t-VA artists ("Evening on the Volga", "Port to Badli") and the Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by artists-Jews. In 1917 he joined the Association "World of art" and participated in its exhibitions. In 1917, with K. A. Korovin and L. O. Pasternak and I. I. Mashkov was organized by the Union of the figures hood. education and aesthetic. of education, elected to Prez. Council opr-tions of artists of Moscow. Between 1921 and settled in France. Participated in the Rus. exhibitions in Paris (1921, Gal. Densi and Bossi) and the Hague (1924).
Born into a large Jewish family in Kishinev, where he studied at the commercial College. In the early 1900's, the family moved to Moscow, where Adolf Milman entered the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture. Since 1904 worked in the Studio of-Studio of Ilya Mashkov, who soon became friends. In the Studio also became close with R. R. Falk.
Since 1911 — member of the auditing Commission of the Association "Jack of diamonds". Exhibited in the group exhibitions of the Association in 1912-1914. In October 1917 left the Association and together with R. Falk, A. Lentulov, V. Rozhdestvensky, and others joined the "World of art".
In the years 1912-1917, he taught in a private Studio of painting and drawing by Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov. Fell ill with tuberculosis and in 1914 year went for treatment in the village Otuzy in the Crimea. In 1918 participated in the organization of the Department of fine arts at the people's Commissariat. In the same year, Adolf Milman moved to Kiev, where among his students were P. Chelishchev and Sergei Yutkevich. Then until 1920 he lived in Sudak (Crimea). At the same time sick "lethargic encephalitis" (perhaps encephalitis von Economo). The only personal exhibition was held in 1920 in Feodosia.
Triple portrait of Adolf Milman, I. I. Mashkov (1916)
Since 1921 he lived in Paris, where it is still exhibited for the next several years (until 1924), but since 1922 no longer painted. In the years 1920-1922 student A. Milman was a canadian artist Edwin Holgate. The last 8 years of his life he was bedridden, speechless. He was buried at Montparnasse cemetery.
(Source: Wikipedia)
