Monumental winter landscape with a castle was executed by Albert Bredow, German stage designer, painter, lithographer in Russia (1828 Germany - 1899 Moscow ). According to Neumann 1852-55 as a decorative painter in Riga, later in Reval (Tallinn). Until 1896 set designer for the Moscow State Theater; involved in the set of numerous performances of the Bol´soj Theater ibid. (1854 1st work; e.g. on MI Glinka, Zizn´ za carja, 1857, sketches published in "Al´bom k opere ´Zizn´ za carja´", St.Petersburg 1863; AS Dargomyzsskij, Rusalka, 1859; Ch.Gounod, Romeo and Juliet, 1896). Also works for the Mariinsky Theater St.Petersburg (e.g. to C.Pugni, Konek-Gorbunok, 1864). – his works stand in the tradition of the "romanticizing" stage design in the pseudo-Russian style of Andrej Adamovic Roller. Also landscapes in oil (including Schwanheim near Frankfurt/M. and Russian village motifs) and oleographies (portr. of Aleksandr II. and Marija Aleksandrovna, 1865, together with Johan Henric Stromer).

WORKS: MOSCOW, Bachrusin-Theater-Museum;

BIBLIOGRAPHY Neumann, LbK, 1908; ChudSSSR II, 1972 (lit.); ballet Enc., Mo. 1981, 262 et passim. – Otcet IACh za 1865-66 gg., StP. 1867, 99; Davydova, 1974; Chudozniki Bol´sogo teatra, Mo. 1976, 61, 64-68, 75; Syrkina/Kostina, 1978; Leningradsky ... teatr opery i baleta im. S.M. Kirova, Le. 1983, 20.

Inscription: signed lower left

Technique: framed oil on canvas.

Measurements: unframed w 56 1/4" x h 38 1/3" (143 x 97,5 cm), framed w 61 1/4" x h 43 3/4" (155,5 x 111 cm ).

Condition: in very good condition.