Oil painting, landscape with lake and monopteros, by the Russian artist Albert Benois, 20. century.
ARTIST:
Albert Alexandrovitch Benois, belonging to the famous dynasty of artists and architects, is born on June 11, 1888, in Saint-Petersburg. Son of the watercolorist Alexander Alexandrovitch Benois, Albert Alexandrovitch learnt drawing and painting from his father who initiated him into the world of art since his childhood. In 1907 he was admitted to the Faculty of architecture of the Institute of Civil Engineers (Институт гражданских иженеров). In 1910 Albert A. settled in Paris with his wife, the artist Marguerite Alexandrovna Benois. He enrolled in the École spéciale d’Architecture and worked in the studios of Henri Zoa and Pierre Vignal. Afterwards he travelled to Italy, France and Corsica, and painted watercolor landscapes. From 1923 onwards he gave expositions of his paintings at the « Salon d’Automne » and the « Salon des Indépendants ». In 1925 he gave an exposition of architectural drawings of churches at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and participated in the expositions of Russian art in Brussels (1928), Belgrade (1930), Paris (La Renaissance, 1932) and Prague (1935). He gave an exposition on his own at the galleries J. Charpentier (1924 and 1925), G. Petit (1929), V. Girchman (1931) and at the Paris American Club (1929).
In the years 1930 Albert A. became member of the Association « The Icon » and devoted himself above all to the construction of churches and religious painting. In 1937 he built a memorial church at the Russian military cemetery in Mourmelon-le-Grand near Reims, where each year a pilgrimage is held to the memory of the Russian soldiers who died in France during the First World War.
The construction and decoration (mural paintings) of the church of the Dormition of the Mother of God, consecrated in 1939, at the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, turned out to be his life-work.
Albert Benois was consultant for the project of the memorial church of Saint Alexander Nevsky in Bizerte (Tunisia), built in 1938, and maked the project for the iconostasis. In 1948 he conceived a project for the architecture of the Russian church in Santa Fe (New Mexico), which is remained unfinished.
Albert Benois was member of the Union des travailleurs de l’art russe (Союз деятелей русского искусства), of the Comité central Pouchkine in Paris (Центральный Пушкинский комитет), member of the parish council of the Cathedral in Paris, member of the council of the Association for the preservation of the Russian cultural treasures (Общество охранения русских культурных ценностей), member of the Comittee of the protection of the monuments of the Russian soldiers who died on the French front in Saint-Hilaire-le- Grand (Комитет по охране памятников русским воинам павшим на французском фронте в Сен-Илер-ле-Гран), and the Committee of the protection and maintenance of the tombs of the cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Комитет по охране и поддержанию могил на кладбище Сент- Женевьев-де-Ъуа ).
Albert A. Benois conceived many architectural designs for the apartment buildings in Paris and the houses in its surroundings. He died on August 13, 1960, in Paris.
Source: Wikipedia, Centenary of the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe
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DIMENSIONS:
painting about h 64,8 cm x w 90,2 cm
frame about h 82,0 cm x w 106,0 cm
CONDITION:
good condition of painting and frame
