Alexander Tyshler (1898–1980) is an artist of amazing talent and a man of unique originality, who has not yet taken his rightful place in domestic and world culture. Along with his turbulent century, he experienced moments of high inspiration and tragic disappointment, but he always shunned the powers that be. He was among the few artists of the era who sought new paths in art. For many years he was known only as a theater artist and almost never showed his work publicly. His few exhibitions in the 1960s and 1970s shocked viewers with the unexpectedness of his compositions, the extraordinary musicality and fantastic nature of his paintings, graphics and sculpture. The author - art critic and prose writer Vera Tchaikovskaya - piece by piece managed to create a vivid life story and present us with a beautiful, easy-going, cheerful inventor and focused , to the fanaticism of a hardworking master who, from youth to old age, carried energy, love, impulse in his work...