21 Facts About Eugene Lanceray

Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva.

Eugene Lanceray came from a prominent Russian artistic family of French origin.

Eugene Lanceray's sister, Zinaida Serebriakova, was a painter, while his brother Nikolay was an architect.

Eugene Lanceray's father Eugene Lanceray, who was an artist, died early, aged forty; when the boy was eleven years old.

Already a mature and experienced master, Eugene Lanceray noted that “his search for the right everyday gesture, interest in the ethnographic characterization of characters”, and, finally, “attraction to the Caucasus” were received from his father “as a heredity” characteristic of his work.

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Eugene Lanceray took his first lessons at the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St Petersburg from 1892 to 1896.

Eugene Lanceray then traveled to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Academie Colarossi and Academie Julian between 1896 and 1899.

Eugene Lanceray was younger than the masters of Mir iskusstva and initially acted as their student.

Eugene Lanceray's most celebrated mural painting is located at the ceiling of Moscow Kazansky railway station.

Eugene Lanceray was the only prominent member of Mir iskusstva to remain in Russia after the Revolution of 1917.

Eugene Lanceray himself hated the new Soviet regime that he had to exist in after 1917.

Eugene Lanceray left Saint Petersburg in 1917, and spent three years living in Dagestan, where he became infatuated with Oriental themes.

Eugene Lanceray's interest increased during journeys made in the early 1920s to Japan and Ankara, Turkey.

Eugene Lanceray left Georgia in 1934, settling in Moscow, where he became engaged in the decoration of the Moscow Kazansky railway station and the Hotel Moskva.

Schusev, the famous Russian architect and a frequent character of Eugene Lanceray's diaries, was responsible for the whole process from the very beginning.

In 1916, Schusev, Benois, Serebryakova, Eugene Lanceray were hired to plan the decorations and paintings for the Kazanskiy railway station, but the revolution broke off the plans.

Eugene Lanceray, an experienced monumental painter with conservative views, was invited from Tbilisi to Moscow to continue working at The Central Railway Station decorations.

In January 1934, after gluing the first canvas to the plafond Eugene Lanceray writes: ?A turning, formidable day: today they glued the first picture, Crimea.

But, while Eugene Lanceray was disappointed with his inappropriate use of technique, the Committee members were not really satisfied with the subject of Eugene Lanceray's paintings.

Eugene Lanceray kept working on these monumental paintings after the war finished.

In 1932, Eugene Lanceray completed two of his monumental works at the Zheleznodorozhnik Palace of Culture in Kharkiv.