55. Icon on glass, "Saint George killing the dragon", workshop in Nicula, first half of the 19th century, from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Размери

width 28.5 cm, height 33 cm

Описание

Tempera and gold leaf on glaze, aged frame, with clasp

ПРОИЗХОД

Constantin Vișinescu was born in 1920 in Constanta. Between 1930-1937 he attended the courses of "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 a 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 he escaped together with three other comrades and returned to his home country where he was arrested by the Soviet occupation troops for desertion. However, the military prosecutor found that there was no legal basis for his prosecution and he was released. As a trainee lawyer he worked in the office of Istrate Micescu and then in the office of Ion Valjan. In 1951, as the defense lawyer in the trial of the Zionists in Bucharest, he was arrested by the regime's security forces. 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 "Das Verdist Kreuz" decoration for legal merits from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1990 he founded the Cultural Association of Romania-Israel Friendship. In 1996, the Presidency of Romania awarded him the "Commemorative Cross of the Second World War" for military services to the Romanian state.