Yevgeny Evgenyevich Lansere

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Eugene Lanceray ( Russian Евгений Евгеньевич Лансере ; born August 23 . Jul / 4. September  1875 greg. In Pavlovsk , †  13. September 1946 in Moscow ; also Lanssere , Lanceray or Lanceret ; first name and Eugene ) was a Russian and Soviet Painter, book artist and member of the Mir Iskusstwa artists' association .

Life

Lansere was born into the Lansere-Benua family of artists. His grandfather was the painter Nikolai Benois (Benua), his mother the graphic artist Jekaterina Lansere (née Benois), his uncle the painter Alexander Benois (Benua), his father the sculptor Yevgeny Alexandrowitsch Lansere . Yevgeny Lansere's sister was the painter Sinaida Serebrjakowa , also a member of Mir Iskusstwa , his brother the architect Nikolai Lansere .

From 1895 to 1898, Jewgeni Lansere attended the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian in France. After traveling through Europe, he returned to Russia in 1899 and became a member of Mir Iskusstwa . In 1911 he became head of the Russian State Gemstone Mill in Peterhof . After another stay in Paris from 1927 to 1931 he returned to the Soviet Union and from 1934 to 1938 worked as a teacher at the All-Russian Art Academy in Leningrad . In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize, in 1945 as a people 's artist of the RSFSR .

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Yevgeni Lansere: Illustration to Hajji Murat

Under the influence of Alexander Benua and Konstantin Somow , Yevgeny Lansere developed a style that combined elements of Baroque art with the ornamentation of Art Nouveau . At first he mainly worked as an illustrator of magazines and books, often on historical topics, which he tried to reproduce with documentary accuracy. He illustrated works by Lev Tolstoy , Alexander Gribojedow and Friedrich Schiller , among others . In addition, he dealt with poster art, industrial graphics and the design of postcards.

During the Soviet period, Yevgeny Lansere turned mainly to historicizing monumental art, such as the design of the halls of the Moscow Kazan train station and the Komsomolskaya metro station , the Moskva Hotel (near Moscow's Red Square ) , which was demolished in 2004, and the memorial hall of the Leningrad Academy of Arts .

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SURNAME Lansere, Yevgeny Yevgenyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лансере, Евгений Евгеньевич (Cyrillic); Lanceray, Eugene (English); Lanceret, Eugène (French)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian and Soviet painter and book artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovsk
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1946
Place of death Moscow