Leonti Nikolayevich Benois

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Leonti Nikolayevich Benois

Leon Benois and Leon Benois ( Russian Леонтий Николаевич Бенуа / Leonti Nikolaevich Benua ; born August 11 . Jul / 23. August  1856 greg. In Peterhof , † 8. February 1928 in Leningrad ) was a Russian architect , art teacher and high school principal. Most of his work can be assigned to classicism .

Life

Entrance to St. George's Cathedral, built between 1892 and 1902
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Warsaw
Russian chapel in Darmstadt
Russian chapel in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

The son of the French-born Russian architect and artist Nikolai Leontjewitsch Benois (1813–1898) and his wife Camilla Cavos (1829–1891), daughter of the architect of Italian descent Albert Katarinowitsch Cavos (1800–1863), grew up in a cosmopolitan, art-loving family. Like his older brother, he studied the future architect and watercolorist Albert Nikolajewitsch Benois (1852–1936) at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg . His younger brother, who later became a painter, graphic artist, set and costume designer, art historian and art critic Alexander Nikolajewitsch Benois (1870–1960) graduated from the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University, but was also taught by Albert Nikolajewitsch Teaching painting.

After Leonti Benois had completed his art studies with a diploma in 1879, he entered the drawing school of the Society for the Promotion of Artists as a teacher (1879-1884), later switched to the College of Civil Engineering (1884-1892) and was finally to the Appointed art academy (1892). In the years from 1892 to 1895 he published the architecture magazine "Sodtschi" ( "Зодчий" ). The Academy of the Arts appointed him rector of the art college (1903–1906 and 1911–1917).

In 1914 he sold the painting of the "Madonna with Flower" by Leonardo da Vinci , which had become famous as Madonna Benois, to the Tsar for the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) .

Leonti Nikolajewitsch Benois died in Saint Petersburg in 1928. He rests there in the Volkovo cemetery in the area of ​​the so-called "Literatenweg" ( Literatorskie mostki ), where his father Nikolai Leontjewitsch Benois and his father-in-law Albert Katarinowitsch Cavos were buried.

His daughter, the painter, book illustrator, set designer and costume designer Nadeschda Leontjewna Benois (1896–1975), called Nadja, married the German diplomat and secret agent of MI5 Jona von Ustinov . Their son was Peter Ustinov .

plant

In addition to numerous residential buildings, Benois also built two insurance and a bank buildings in Saint Petersburg

It also afforded Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanov a design for the lock in Likani in the spa Bordschomi in Georgia ( Bordschomi-Kharagauli National Park )

student

In chronological order of the year of birth:

Benois family museum

The Benois Family Museum ( Musej Semij Benuain ) , which opened in 1988, is located in an outbuilding east of the Peterhof Summer Palace, where court ladies used to live .

Web links

Commons : Leonti Nikolajewitsch Benois  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Eva Gerberding: Sankt Petersburg , Dumont Marco Polo, 2004, p. 87
personal data
SURNAME Benois, Leonti Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benua, Leonti Nikolajewitsch; Бенуа, Леонтий Николаевич (Russian spelling); Benua, Leonti Nikolajewitsch; Benois, Léon (French spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian architect, built the Russian Chapel in Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterhof
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1928
Place of death Leningrad