Alexey von schlippe biography

Russian-American painter

Alexey von Schlippe (1915–1988) was a Russian-American painter who became the first full-time professor at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus in Groton.^[1] Opened in 1992, the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art is a contemporary artgallery in the Branford House.^[2][3]

Biography

Von Schlippe was born in Bekasovo, Kaluga, Moskau, Russia, on September 12, 1915,^[4] to the family of a minister in Nicholas II's court. His father was Theodor (Fedor) Viktor Stanislaus von Schlippe (1873 – 1951), his mother was Elizabeth von Schwanebach (1875 – 1958), his grandfather was Woldemar (Vladimir) Rudolf August von Schlippe (1834 – 1923) and his great-grandfather was Karl von Schlippe (1798 – 1867). The family fled from the Russian Revolution in 1920 and eventually settled in Germany. Alexey attended the Berlin Academy of Arts and studied art and opera in Rome from 1940 to 1942. He m