person
Erber
also: Эрбер
A Petersburg artist whose acquaintance Chekhov made during his April 1886 visit, alongside the illustrator Lebedev; otherwise unidentified in the standard commentary.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 2 September 1887. Moscow. §5 the Erber sledgehammer
A drawing by the Oskolki illustrator Erber, criticized here for giving its female figure an unrealistically heavy, "sledgehammer" build; Chekhov's central aesthetic argument in this letter defends elegance over this kind of coarse realism in caricature.