Leon Benois
Leonti Nikolaevich Benois Benois and Léon (Russian Леонтий Николаевич Бенуа / Leonti Nikolaevich Benua, . * 11 Augustjul / August 23 1856greg in Peterhof, . † February 8, 1928 in Leningrad) was a Russian architect, art teacher and high school principal. His work is mostly attributable to classicism.
Life
The son of French-born Russian architect and artist Nikolai Leontyevich Benois (1813-1898) and his wife Camilla Cavos (1829-1891), daughter of the architect of Italian descent Albert Katarinowitsch Cavos (1800-1863), grew up in a cosmopolitan, art-loving family. He studied, as his older brother, who later became an architect and watercolor painter Albert Nikolayevich Benois (1852-1936) at the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg arts. Although his younger brother, the future painter, printmaker, stage and costume designer, art historian and art critic Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (1870-1960) studied at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University, next to it but left by Albert Nikolaevich in the painting instruction.
After Leonti Benois was completed in 1879 his art studies with a diploma, he joined as a teacher in the Drawing School of the Society for the Promotion of artists one ( 1879-1884 ), moved to the College of Civil Engineering ( 1884-1892 ) later, and eventually became the Art Academy appointed (1892 ). In the years 1892-1895 he edited the architecture magazine " Sodtschi " ( " Зодчий "). The Academy of Arts appointed him rector of the School of Art (1903-1906 and 1911-1917 ).
In 1914 he sold the painting as Benois Madonna became famous "Madonna with Flower " by Leonardo da Vinci to the Tsar for the Hermitage Museum ( St. Petersburg ).
Leonti Nikolaevich Benois died in 1928 in Saint Petersburg. He rests there on the Wolkowo cemetery in the area of so-called " literary way" ( Literatorskie Mostki ), where his father Nikolai Leontyevich Benois and his father Albert Katarinowitsch Cavos had been buried already.
His daughter, the painter, book illustrator, stage designer and costume illustrator Nadezhda Leontjewna Benois (1896-1975), called Nadja, married the German diplomats and secret agents of the MI5 Jona Ustinov. Their son was Peter Ustinov.
Work
Benois built two houses in addition to numerous insurance and a bank building in Saint -Petersburg, further
He also gave the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, a design for the castle in Likani at the spa Borjomi in Georgia ( Borjomi - Kharagauli National Park )
Student
In chronological order, the years of birth:
- Vladimir Alexandrovich Pokrovsky (1871-1931), a Russian architect
- Oskar Rudolfowitsch Munz (1871-1942), a Russian architect, architectural theorist and teacher
- Marian Marijanowitsch Peretjatkowitsch (1872-1916), a Russian architect
- Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin (1872-1936), a Russian architect
- Alexei Viktorovich Shchusev (1873-1949), Romanian, Russian architect
- Vladimir Alexandrovich Schtschuko (1878-1939), a Russian architect and designer
- Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev (1878-1959), a Russian architect
- Nikolai Jewgenjewitsch Lansere (1879-1942), a Russian architect, graphic designer, art historian and teacher
- Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev (1885-1956), a Russian architect
- Yakov Georgijewitsch Tschernichow (1889-1951), a Russian architect
- Vladimir Georgijewitsch Gelfreich (?)
Museum of the Benois family
Living in an adjoining building to the east of the Summer Palace Peterhof, the former ladies of the court, shows that in 1988 opened Benois Family Museum ( Musej Semij Benuain ) works and documents on the history of the widely ramified family of artists emerged from the architect, painter and stage designer.