57. Icon on glass, "The Grieving Mother of God", Gherla workshop, end of the 19th century, from the collection of lawyer Constantin Vișinescu

Dimenzije

width 24 cm, height 28 cm

Opis

Tempera and gold foil on glaze, distressed frame, with clamp.

PODRIJETLO

Constantin Vișinescu was born in 1920 in Constanța. 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 ignores this situation and still goes to the front. In 1944 he is taken prisoner and sent to the Wosnesensk camp on the Bug, from where, together with three other comrades, he escapes and arrives in the country where he is arrested by the Soviet occupation troops, for desertion. However, the military prosecutor's office 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 a defense lawyer in the trial of the Zionists from 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 activity and in 1972 he received the "Das Verdist Kreuz" decoration for legal merits from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1990, he established the Romania-Israel Friendship Cultural Association. In 1996, the Presidency of Romania awarded him the "Commemorative Cross of the Second World War" for military services provided to the Romanian state.