49. Icon on glass, "Saint George killing the dragon", Grecu family workshop, Săsăuș, mid 19th century, from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Размери

width 46 cm, height 52 cm

Описание

Tempera and gold foil on glaze, distressed frame, with ratchet.

ПРОИЗХОД

Constantin Vișinescu was born in 1920 in Constanţa. Between 1930-1937 he attended courses at "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 injured and declared a war invalid. He ignores this situation and continues on the front. In 1944 he falls prisoner and is sent to the Wosnesensk camp on the Bug, from where, together with other three comrades, he escapes and returns to the country where he is arrested by the Soviet occupation troops, for desertion. However, the military prosecutor's office finds that there is no legal basis for his prosecution and he is released. As a trainee lawyer, he worked in the office of Istrate Micescu and then in the office of Ion Valjan. In 1951, being a defense attorney in the Zionist trial in Bucharest, he was arrested by the Securitate of the regime. After a long investigation, he is sent to the labor camp at the Danube-Black Sea Canal, from where he is released in 1954. After his release, he resumes his legal activity and in 1972 receives the ''Das Verdist Kreuz'' decoration from the German Federal Republic government for legal merits. In 1990 he founded 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 rendered to the Romanian state.