Paul Troubetzkoy Biography
Paolo Troubetzkoy (Russian: Павел Петрович Трубецкой?, transliterated: Pavel Petrović Trubeckoj; Intra, 15 February 1866 – Pallanza, 12 February 1938) was an Italian sculptor and painter, of Russian origin, member of the Trubeck family oj. Prince Paolo (also Pawel, Paul) Troubetskoy II was born in Italy, in Verbania-Intra to a Russian father (the diplomat Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy) and an American mother, the pianist Ada Winans. He studied sculpture with Ernesto Bazzaro and Giuseppe Grandi and painting with Daniele Ranzoni, but was largely self-taught. A polyglot, a member of the international aristocracy of the Belle époque which he was able to splendidly portray in his sculptures, Troubetzkoy worked and resided in Russia (he taught at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow for nine years, from 1897 to 1906), France (in Paris, where he studied Rodin's work in depth, and where in 1900 he had won the Grand Prix), England, the United States (first in New York in 1911 and then, from 1914, in Hollywood), as well as in Italy (in Verbania- Pallanza still exists in Villa Troubetzkoy, where he returned to live in 1932). He died in Verbania-Pallanza in 1938.
