44. Icon on glass, "Mother of God of the Sign (Platytera)", workshop from Țara Bârsei, second half of the 19th century, rare piece, from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Dimenzije

width 53 cm, height 58 cm

Opis

tempera and gold leaf on enamel, distressed frame, with forced

PODRIJETLO

Constantin Vișinescu was born in 1920 in Constanţa. Between 1930-1937, he attended the "Gheorghe Lazăr" College in Bucharest, and in 1938 he was accepted into 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 fights for the liberation of Bessarabia. In 1943 he was wounded and declared a war invalid. Despite this, he continued to go to the front. In 1944 he was captured and sent to the Wosnesensk camp on Bug, from where, together with another three comrades, he escaped and got back to the country where he was arrested by the Soviet occupation forces, for desertion. However, the military prosecutor's office found no legal basis for his trial and he was released. As a trainee lawyer, he worked in Istrate Micescu's office and then in Ion Valjan's office. In 1951, as a defense lawyer in the Zionists' trial in Bucharest, he was arrested by the Security of the regime. 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 work and in 1972 received the "Das Verdist Kreuz" decoration for legal merits from the German Federal Republic government. In 1990 he founded the Romania-Israel Friendship Cultural Association. In 1996, the Presidency of Romania awarded him the "World War II Commemorative Cross" for military services to the Romanian state.