56. Icon on glass, "Saints Apostles Peter and Paul", workshop in Gherla, end of the 19th century, coming from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Размери

width 27 cm, height 31.5 cm

Описание

tempera and gold foil on glaze, gilded frame, with wire

ПРОИЗХОД

Constantin Vișinescu was born in 1920 in Constanța. Between 1930-1937, he attended 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 unfit for war. Ignoring this situation, he continued on the front. In 1944, he was captured and sent to the Wosnesensk camp on the Bug, from where, along with three other comrades, he escaped and returned to his country where he was arrested by the Soviet occupation troops for desertion. However, the military prosecutor's office found that there was no legal basis for his prosecution and he was released. He worked as a trainee lawyer in the office of Istrate Micescu and then in the office of Ion Valjan. In 1951, being a defense lawyer in the trial of the Zionists in Bucharest, he was arrested by the regime's Security. After a long investigation, he was sent to the labor camp at the Danube-Black Sea Canal, from where he was released in 1954. After his release, he resumed his legal activity and in 1972 received the decoration "Das Verdist Kreuz" from the Federal Republic of Germany for legal merits. In 1990, he founded the Cultural Association of Friendship Romania-Israel. In 1996, the Presidency of Romania awarded him the "Commemorative Cross of the Second World War" for military services to the Romanian state.