Alfred
Petrovich Friesen

He was born 29 Oct 1929 in Ufa.

VESNOI studied in Moscow.

Painter. Works in the genre of urban and lyrical landscape, portrait.

Participant of exhibitions since 1973, regional, zonal, Republican, including the regional exhibition "the Germans of Siberia", 1998, Novosibirsk. In 1999 he held a solo exhibition in Germany Frankfurt-on-main.

Member of the Union of artists of Russia since 1990

Major works:

"Barnaul" 1989 (GMELINA),

"Widow" 1992,

"Mowers", 1994,

"Protest", 1995,

"Gateway" 1997,

"Street musicians", 1997,

"Portrait of A. Schnittke"1998 (Germany, Saarbrucken).

Member of artists Union of Russia (1989). B. in 1929, in Ufa, in the family of an employee of German origin. In 1934 the family moved to Rubtsovsk. Studied in absentia in the all-Union people's University of arts. N. K. Krupskaya. From 1973 participates in regional art exhibitions. From 1983 lives in Barnaul. Here in 1987 was held the 1st solo exhibition called "Crimean motives". On the 2nd solo exhibition (Barnaul, 1991) Priset showed 170 paintings -- landscapes, portraits, still lifes. But the favorite genre of the artist -- of the mountains. landscape. In the works "red army Avenue", "Liberty Square", "Mamontov" he created the image of Barnaul in painting. Reflected in the work houses, squares and streets Kolyvan, Quick Source, of Dnepropetrovsk, Simferopol. His paintings full of feeling and warm ed. relationship to depict. Altai is one of the few artists who appeals to the Western European and Russian traditions of the mountains. landscape and traditions of the German school of fine art early XX century.

(author - T. M. Stepanskaya)