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National University Of Arts, Bucharest
The National University of Arts in Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Naţională de Arte) is a university in Bucharest preparing students in fine arts. The National University of Arts is a higher education institution in Bucharest. History The National School of Fine Arts was founded on 5 October 1864 through a decree issued by the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza and as a result of the efforts pursued by the painters Theodor Aman and Gheorghe Tattarescu. This fine arts institution from Bucharest has had a number of official denominations over time: * 1864 – The National School of Fine Arts (Școala Națională de Arte Frumoase) * 1931 – The Fine Arts Academy (Academia de Belle-Arte) * 1942 – The Higher School of Arts in Bucharest (Școala Superioară de Arte din București) * 1948 – The Fine Arts Institute "Nicolae Grigorescu" (Institutul de Arte Plastice "Nicolae Grigorescu") * 1990 – The Academy of Arts (Academia de Arte) * 1995 – The University of Arts (Universitatea de A ...
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Alexandru Ciucurencu
Alexandru Ciucurencu (; 27 September 1903 – 27 December 1977) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Born in Tulcea, he studied from 1921 to 1926 at the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where he had as teachers George Demetrescu Mirea and Camil Ressu. After making his debut in 1930 at the Official Salon in Bucharest, he worked with a group of artists in Baia Mare, and then went to Paris to pursue his studies at the Académie Julian, where he was a student of André Lhote. In 1948 he became a professor at the School of Fine Arts, and in 1963 he was elected corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Ciucurencu was awarded the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic — 3rd class in 1959 and 2nd class in 1971. A collection of Ciucurencu's paintings can be seen in Dr. Frasier Crane's apartment in the sitcom ''Frasier ''Frasier'' () is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 1 ...
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Elena Murariu
Elena Murariu (born 29 June 1963) is a Romanian painter and iconographer. She is known for her icons and graphics works. Biography She was born in Zvoriștea, a commune in Suceava County. She started to study fine arts in 1973 at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Botoșani. She left for her high-school studies in Iași at the age of 14 attending "Octav Bancilă" Fine Arts High-school of Iași. In 1983 she left for Bucharest National University of Arts. She graduated in 1987 and immediately started to work as a curator and also as a mural painting restorer. After a decade in which she dedicated herself to gaining experience in the field of restoration of historical monuments she began, starting from 1990, to constantly participate in group and personal exhibitions with works of graphics and icons. As one of the most important contemporary painters and iconographers her works were exhibited in Romania all over Europe (Paris, Barcelona, Athens, Lisbon, Prague, Venice, St. Peters ...
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Cornel Medrea
Cornel Medrea (; March 8, 1888–July 25, 1964) was a Romanian sculptor. Biography Artistic studies He was born on March 8, 1888, in Miercurea Sibiului, then in Szeben County, Kingdom of Hungary, now Sibiu County, Romania. After moving with his family to Alba Iulia and attending the local school, he went from 1905–1909 to study at an art school in Zlatna, and in 1909–1912 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. After spending a year traveling by foot to visit the museums in Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig, and Munich, he returned home. In 1914 he participated in an exhibit in Bucharest, and completed a bust of George Coșbuc, which is displayed in Sibiu. Towards the end of the year he decided to leave Transylvania and moved to Bucharest. Career On November 11, 1933, he was named professor at the Bucharest National University of Arts, filling the position left vacant after the death of Dimitrie Paciurea; Medrea held this position until 1964. In 1955 he was elected ...
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Ștefan Luchian
Ștefan Luchian (, last name also spelled Lukian; 1 February 1868 – 28 June 1916) was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works. Biography Early life Luchian was born in Ștefănești, a village of Botoșani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. The Luchian family moved to Bucharest in 1873 and his mother desired that he would follow his father's path and join the Military School. Instead, in 1885, Luchian joined the painting class at the Fine Arts School, where he was encouraged to pursue a career in art by Nicolae Grigorescu, whose work was to have a major effect on his entire creative life. Starting in autumn of 1889 Luchian studied for two semesters at the Munich Fine Arts Academy, where he created copies of the works by Correggio and Rembrandt housed in the Kunstareal. After his return to Romania, he took part in the first exhibition of the ''Cercul Artistic'' art group. He showed himself unable to accept the ac ...
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Sorin Ilfoveanu
Sorin Ilfoveanu (born May 23, 1946, in Câmpulung Muscel) is a Romanian painter, designer and university teacher. Formation * 1953-1964 attends the classes of the Ion Brătianu High School in Pitești, where he was colleague, among others, with Daniel Turcea. * 1964-1970 attends the courses of the Bucharest National University of Arts, in the class of master Corneliu Baba, assistant Liviu Lăzărescu, having as colleagues, among others, Mihai Cismaru, Ștefan Câlția, Sorin Dumitrescu, and teachers: Eugen Schileru in art history, Gheorghe Ghițescu in anatomy and Simion Iuca in engraving. * 1971- he has been a member of the Fine Arts Artists Union of Romania. University Activity *1992-1996 he is the head of the painting department at Bucharest National University of Arts. *1996-2000 he is the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts from the Bucharest National University of Arts. *2004-2006 he is Rector of the Bucharest National University of Arts. Personal exhibitions *2011 "Drawings 2 ...
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Ion Grigorescu
Ion Grigorescu (born March 15, 1945 in Bucharest) is a Romanian painter who was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists. Grigorescu is the creator of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and collages. His subjects include both his private life and the passage of the Romanian people from life under communism to capitalism. Personal exhibitions – selection *2013 – Trauma of the Exposed Body, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Church San Matteo, Lucca *2011 – Performing History, the Romanian Pavilion at the 54th International exhibition La Biennale di Venezia *2011 – Rome seen with the eyes / Rome invented, with Bogdan Vladuţă, workshop, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest; * Grigorescu, galeria Mitterand, Zuerich; Horse, Men Market, (personal) Friedrichshof Sammlung; Grigorescu, Enseigne des Oudin, Paris; *2010 – Oedipus The Wanderer, Gregor Podnar gallery, Berlin; *2009 – The Poor people are fending for themselves ...
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Dumitru Gorzo
Dumitru Gorzo (born 1975) is a Romanian contemporary artist. Born in Ieud, Romania, he currently lives and works in Bucharest and Brooklyn, New York. Education Gorzo received an MFA in Visual Arts from the Bucharest National University of Arts in 1999, then studied with painter Florin Mitroi. He was one of the founding members of 'Rostopasca', an influential contemporary artistic movement in Romania. Gorzo's methods of working have ranged from street prankster to performance artist to studio painter and sculptor. Works & Controversy Gorzo first began to gain renown for his overtly sexual and political subject matter in 2003, when his guerrilla public installation ''Cocoons'' in Bucharest drew attention from a Romanian television station claiming the work had been done by Satanists. Gorzo had glued 350 small plaster, larvae-like figurines to the walls of buildings in the center of the Romanian capital, inciting public debate among passersby about their broader meaning. ...
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Dimitrie Gerota
Dimitrie D. Gerota (pronounced , 17 July 1867 – 3 March 1939) was a Romanian anatomist, physician, radiologist, urologist, and corresponding member of the Romanian Academy from 1916. Biography He was born in Craiova, the son of a priest, Dimitrie Constantin Gerota (1841–?), and Maria Gerota, née Surpăteanu (1847–?). He studied at the Carol I High School in Craiova. In 1886, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bucharest, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1892. For four years, he pursued his studies in Paris in Berlin. After returning to Bucharest, he started practicing medicine and teaching at various institutions. Starting in October 1897, he taught anatomy at the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. In the fall of 1898, he and his student Constantin Brâncuși produced the carved muscles anatomical study entitled the ''Ecorché'', based on research done in the dissection room of the Faculty of Medicine and the Museum of Comparative Anatomy. I ...
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Albert György
Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s Entertainment * ''Albert'' (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil * ''Albert'' (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich * ''Albert'' (2016 film), an American TV movie * ''Albert'' (Ed Hall album), 1988 * "Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy * Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * Albert (''Discworld''), a character in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film ''Suspiria'' Military * Battle of Albert (1914), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1916), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1918), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France People * Albert (given n ...
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Alex Gâlmeanu
Alexandru Pompiliu Gâlmeanu (born October 29, 1978) is a Romanian photographer and image director. He started working in 1998, and has primarily focused on editorial, advertising, fashion or abstract photography. Early life and education Gâlmeanu was born on October 29, 1978, in Bucharest, Romania. At the age of 14, he started learning to photograph using the existing photographic equipment in his family's house, including a functional photo laboratory. A year later, in 1993, he published his first photograph, cover no. 3 of Salut magazine. From 1994 till 1997, he attended Colegiul Național Matei Basarab for his higher education, and also worked for the magazine of the "Matei Basarab" National College. In 1997 he had his first collaborations with the Romanian magazine market, working on several occasions for a local independent magazine called 2000 Plus. In 1997, Gâlmeanu began his studies at the Faculty of Art of Hyperion University, Film Department, but he could not com ...
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Ion Frunzetti
Ion Frunzetti (1918–1985) was a Romanian art critic and historian. He was vice president of the Union of Fine Artists, head of the Literature and Arts Section of the Academy of Social and Political Sciences, professor at Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...'s Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute and, for a time, director of the Institute of Art History and of Editura Meridiane."Books", in ''Romanian Review'', vol. 39, p.83. Europolis Publishing House, 1985 Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Frunzetti, Ion 1918 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian art historians Romanian art critics Bucharest National University of Arts faculty ...
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