Egon Sendler

Egon Sendler (1 August 1923 – 17 March 2014) was a Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and one of the world's foremost experts on the painting of Eastern Orthodox icons.

In 1970, he established the icons section of the Centre d'Études Russes Saint-Georges, located in Meudon, just outside Paris.

For more than thirty years, he has also taught icon workshops in countries throughout the world, including Italy, Argentina, the United States, and Réunion.

[6] In recent years, an icon workshop named Atelier Saint-André was established in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Their murals, frescoes, and icons "strictly adhere to the canonical and aesthetic rules of traditional iconography which have developed through the past two thousand years".

Eastern art, on the contrary, requires that the artist in his interpretation of a given theme closely adhere to the theological content of Tradition.