Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm
Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm (20 April 1859 – 22 January 1939), also written as Léopold-Bernhard Bernstam, Léopold Bernard Bernstamm or Leopold Adolfovich Bernstam, was a
Biography
Bernstamm was born in Riga, now Latvia, where he entered the studio of Prof. David Jensen at age 13, and at 14 entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Petersburg, where he won several awards.
In the early 1880s he made about thirty busts of celebrated Russians including
Alexandrinsky Theater), and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (erected at the writer's grave in 1900). These busts established his reputation. He then spent 1884 in Rome and Florence
, continuing his studies under a Professor Rivalti.
In 1885 he settled in
Nicholas II of Russia and members of the Imperial family (1896), Anton Rubinstein (1901), and Alexander Pushkin
(1911).
His last work for
Légion d'honneur in 1891.[3]
References
- OCLC 23573969.
- ^ fr Catalogue-almanach of the Musée Grévin, 1891
- ^ Léopold Bernstamm Ville de Menton (in French)
Further reading
- Serge Bernstamm, Leopold Bernstamm. Sa vie – son oeuvre, L. Lapina & Cie, Paris. 1913 (reprinted 2017)
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