Exhibitions: Alexander Benois di Stetto displayed in St. Petersburg

April 18, 2012 the G. R. Derzhavin Museum-Estate (St. Petersburg) opened an exhibition of works by Alexander Benois di Stetto (1896-1979), painter and graphic artist, master of design, arts, crafts and decorative arts theater, architect.

The opening took place on the Day of Cultural and Historical Heritage and the International Day of Monuments and Sites.

Alexander Benois di Stetto addressed the landscape as one of the major genres of his work, in the early 1920s. Having a good training, the artist skillfully portrayed mountain villages, which have always been popular with fans and connoisseurs of art. It was the landscape that had become the genre in which the artist was perfecting his painterly skills. In the late 1920s, Alexander Benois di Stetto turned to watercolors, which became one of his favorite. The earlier works, which already revealed the great skill of the artist, include views of the old Munich, Berlin, Geneva. Landscapes of Spain, France and Denmark distinguish not only by motivated plot, but a deep understanding of the environment, atmosphere, coloring so characteristic of these places. In the 1930s, being a famous portraitist, landscape painter, realizing his gift of muralist, he suddenly turned to still life. Benoit di Stetto has also created a remarkable animalistic series in graphic arts.

Significantly, his creativity, interest in the surrounding has stayed with the artist until the last days of his life, which was so characteristic of all members of the great dynasty of Benois.