Albert
Albertovich Benois

Russia • 1879−1930

Biography and information

(1879, St. Petersburg. – 1930, Shanghai)

Watercolorist. The Son Of Alberta.

In 1901-1903 he studied at the architectural Department of the Imperial Academy of arts. Participated in exhibitions of the Society of Russian watercolorists (since 1903). Traveled to Scandinavia, in the Alps, on the Russian North.

From 1918 with his wife Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova (1880-1966; daughter of the painter N. D. Kuznetsova) lived in Paris.

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