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BENOIS Alexander Nikolaevich

April 21, 1870 (St. Petersburg) — February 9, 1960 (Paris)

Painter, graphic artist, scene-designer, art historian, art critic


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BENOIS Alexander Nikolaevich

April 21, 1870 (St. Petersburg) — February 9, 1960 (Paris)

Painter, graphic artist, scene-designer, art historian, art critic

Alexander Benois came from an artistic and intellectual family; he was a son of the architect N. L. Benois, grandson of the architect A. K. Kavos, brother of the architect L. N. Benois and the aquarellist Al. N. Benois, the uncle of Russian artists Eugene Lanceray and Z. Serebriakova. Benois graduated from the private gymnasium of K. I. May. He got his art education mainly at home; in 1887 he took four-month studies at the evening classes of the Imperial Academy of Arts (IAKh). In 1890–1894 Benois studied at the faculty of law at St. Petersburg University. At the same time he studied watercolor technique under the guidance of his elder brother Albert. He participated in exhibitions of the Society of Russian Watercolorists (1893–1896, 1918), exhibition of Secession in Munich (1898). Since 1894 Benois supervised the Countess M. K. Tenisheva’s collection of drawings and watercolors.

In early 1890s Benois together with L. S. Bakst and E. E. Lanceray established a circle of self-education, which became the core of the future movement Mir Iskusstva (“World of Art”). Benois was one of the founders and ideologists of this society, a member of the editorial board and head of the retrospective department of the art magazine of the same name. Since 1899 he was a participant of the exhibitions of Mir Iskusstva. Since 1903 he became a member and exhibitor (1908–1910) of the Union of Russian Artists.

Benois taught history of styles in the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander Stieglitz. He was an editor of the magazines Khudozhestvennye sokrovishcha Rossii (“Art Treasures of Russia”) and Starye gody (“Past Years”) in 1901–1903.

As an illustrator Benois designed the poem by Pushkin Mednij vsadnik (“The Bronze Horseman”), his own book Alphabet in Pictures by Alexander Benois, and created drawings for a set of cards Toys (1905). Benois was engaged in history of art; he wrote a book Russian School of Painting (1904); Tsarskoe Selo in the Reign of Empress Elizabeth (1910); The History of Painting of All Time (1912–1917, not finished).

Benois travelled throughout Europe; in 1890 he visited Germany, in 1894 — Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, in 1899 — England. In 1896–1899 and 1905–1907 he lived in Paris.

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