Theodore STRAWINSKY is a Russian painter, became Swiss, born March 24, 1907 in St. Petersburg and died May 16, 1989 in Geneva. The eldest son of Igor STRAVINSKY and Catherine NOSSENKO, Theodore STRAWINSKY spent his early childhood in Russia. From 1910 his family settled in French-speaking Switzerland, first in Montreux then Morges until 1920. After that The STRAWINSKY will reside in France and Paris since 1935. He married Denise GUERZONI, daughter of the Swiss painter Stephanie GUERZONI in 1936. Arrested by the government of Vichy, he is released after a short internment in Toulouse and takes refuge in Geneva in 1942 with his wife and their daughter. They will settle there permanently while keeping in France deeply implanted links in their hearts. Stateless after the First World War, Theodore STRAWINSKY obtains Swiss nationality on April 10, 1956. Very young already, Theodore STRAWINSKY draws, paints, encouraged by René AUBERJONOIS and Alexandre CINGRIA. The French years mark, they, the period of anchoring of the personality of the painter, finally the blooming of this same personality until the last day of his life. In Paris, the young painter seeks above all, with great perseverance, to acquire a solid job and a rigorous design. The one he calls his "master", Georges BRAQUE, will follow very closely the young man "terribly talented", what he will tell to his parents. André DERAIN will teach him "the cooking" of the trade. On a more theoretical level Théodore STRAWINSKY follows the courses of André LHOTE from 1930 to 1932. PICASSO merely says: "Go to the Louvre and copy, copy" and "Never forget that white is the master of the color ". In 1927 was held in Paris the first exhibition of Theodore STRAWINSKY. He will continue to exhibit, alone or in groups, and we find his works, pictorial or monumental in many countries, both in Switzerland and France, the United States, Italy, Belgium, Holland or in England. He is, for example, the author of stained glass windows of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Geneva, the Sainte-Thérèse church, and a mural in the Sacré-Coeur church, still in Geneva. In 1976 Theodore STRAWINSKY received the silver medal Arts, Sciences, Letters awarded by the French Academy and in 1977 is promoted by Pope Paul VI Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great for "services rendered to the 'church by his art'. The painter died on May 16, 1989 in Geneva. He rests in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris, with his mother, his sister and his paternal grandmother, joined by his wife Denise in 2004.