42. Icon on glass, "The Ascension to Heaven of the Holy Prophet Elijah and scenes from his life", workshop of the Oancea family from Vale, probably Nicolae Oancea, Mărginimea Sibiului, half of the 19th century, comes from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Размери

width 41 cm, height 46 cm

Описание

tempera and gold leaf on glaze, stained and painted frame, with effort

ПРОИЗХОД

Constantin Vișinescu was born in 1920 in Constanța. 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 fighting for the liberation of Bessarabia. In 1943 he was injured and declared a war invalid. He ignores this situation and continues on the front. In 1944, he was taken prisoner and sent to the Wosnesensk camp on the Bug, from where, along with three other comrades, he escaped and arrived in the 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 trial and he was released. As a trainee lawyer, he worked in Istrate Micescu's office and then in Ion Valjan's office. 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 is sent to the labor camp at the Danube-Black Sea Canal, from where he was released in 1954. After release, he resumes his legal activity and in 1972 he receives the "Das Verdist Kreuz" decoration for legal merits from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1990 he founded the Romania-Israel Friendship Cultural Association. In 1996, the Presidency of Romania awarded him the "Commemorative Cross of World War II" for military services rendered to the Romanian state.