60. Icon on glass, "Child Jesus and Child John the Baptist", workshop from Nicula, end of the 19th century, from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Размери

width 30 cm, height 26 cm

Описание

tempera on glaze, distressed frame, with cord

ПРОИЗХОД

Constantin Vişinescu was born in 1920 in Constanţa. Between 1930-1937 he attended the courses of the "Gheorghe Lazăr" College in Bucharest, and in 1938 he was admitted to two faculties: Law, Letters and Philosophy. At the end of 1940, he was sent to the eastern front against the USSR, where he took part in the battles for the liberation of Bessarabia. In 1943, he was wounded and declared war invalid. He ignored this situation and continued on the front. In 1944, he was taken prisoner and sent to the Wosnesensk camp on the Bug, from where, together with three other comrades, he escaped and arrived in the country where he was arrested by the Soviet occupation forces for desertion. However, the military prosecutor's office found no legal grounds for his trial and he was released. As a trainee lawyer, he worked in the office of Istrate Micescu and then in Ion Valjan's office. In 1951, as a defense lawyer in the trial of the Zionists in Bucharest, he was arrested by the Security of the regime. After a long investigation, he was sent to the labor camp at the Danube-Black Sea Canal, from which he was released in 1954. After release, he resumed his legal activity and in 1972 received the decoration "Das Verdist Kreuz" for legal merits from the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1990, he established the Romania-Israel Friendship Cultural Association. In 1996, the Presidency of Romania awarded him the "Commemorative Cross of the Second World War" for military services to the Romanian state.