LANSKOY André

André LANSKOY (born 31 March 1902 in Moscow, 22 August 1976) is a Russian painter from the new École de Paris. Son of Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Lanskoi (1863-1924), he studied in St Petersburg and then in Kiev. He arrived in Paris in 1921 where he attended the Grande Chaumière and devoted himself entirely to painting. Wilhelm Uhde noted that in 1924. As early as 1924, he participated in the Autumn Salon. In 1960, he participated in the Russian painters exhibition at the École de Paris. After a long figurative period, André Lanskoy turned to abstraction from 1938. He is buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.