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Albert BREDOW
Garnsee, 1827 – Charlottenburg, 1899
Landscape with a Young Girl Crossing a River near a Cottage
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left "ABredow"
35 cm x 45 cm (48 x 60 cm with frame)
Very beautiful giltwood frame with floral decoration
Albert Bredow was a German-Russian landscape painter, lithographer, and stage designer. German by birth, he worked as a stage designer in Riga from 1852, then in Tallinn. In 1856, he moved to Moscow at the invitation of the management of the Imperial Theatre. From 1856 to 1862, he worked as a stage designer for Moscow theaters. Bredow worked at the St. Petersburg Theatre from 1862 to 1871. In 1863, an album with his scenery designs for Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar" was published in St. Petersburg. In 1868, he entered the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg. At the same time, he painted smaller animated landscapes, which he regularly exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts. Bredow is mentioned in Krasovskaya's Dictionary of Russian Ballet Theatre from its Origins to the Mid-19th Century (Moscow, 1958). His scenery designs are in the collections of the Bachrushin Theatre Museum in Moscow.
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