Albert Bredow - Landscape With A Young Girl Crossing A River Near A Cottage

Albert BREDOWGarnsee, 1827 – Charlottenburg, 1899Landscape with a young girl crossing a river near a cottageOil on canvasSigned lower left "ABredow"35 cm x 45 cm (48 x 60 cm with frame)Very beautiful gilded wooden frame with floral decorationAlbert Bredow is a German-Russian landscape painter, lithographer and scenographer.German by birth, he worked as a scenographer 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 scenographer for the Moscow theatres. And Bredow worked at the St. Petersburg Theatre from 1862 to 1871. In 1863, an album with his scenery for Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar" was published in St. Petersburg. And 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.