The National University of Arts in Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Naţională de Arte) is a university in

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 ...

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 Alexandru Ioan Cuza (, or Alexandru Ioan I, also anglicised as Alexander John Cuza; 20 March 1820 – 15 May 1873) was the first ''domnitor'' (Ruler) of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as prince of Moldavia on 5 Januar ...

and as a result of the efforts pursued by the painters

Theodor Aman Theodor Aman (20 March 1831 – 19 August 1891) was a Romanian painter, engraver and art professor. He mostly produced genre and history scenes. Biography His father was a cavalry commander from Craiova but he was born in Câmpulung, where his f ...

and

Gheorghe Tattarescu Gheorghe Tattarescu (; October 1818 – October 24, 1894) was a Moldavian, later Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting. Biography Early life and studies Tattarescu was born in Focşani in 1818. H ...

. 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 Arte) * 2002 – The National University of Arts in Bucharest (Universitatea Națională de Arte București) The School had various departments: painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, line drawing, aesthetics, history and perspectival drawing. At that time, the duration of studies was 5 years. The School of Decorative Arts was founded in 1904. In 1909,

Spiru Haret Spiru C. Haret (; 15 February 1851 – 17 December 1912) was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer, and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the ''n''-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approx ...

approved the Regulation for the interior administration of the School of Arts, a document that established the admission examination and confirmed the break with the School of Architecture through the approval of a method of selection by the end of the 1st year of studies. The duration of studies was 7 years. Through the Higher Education Law of 1931, the Fine Arts Schools in Romania were transformed in Fine Arts Academies. The first appointed rector was

Camil Ressu Camil Ressu (; 28 January 1880 – 1 April 1962) was a Romanian painter and academic, one of the most significant art figures of Romania. Biography Early life and career Born in Galați, Ressu originated from an Aromanian family that migrated ...

. In 1942 the Academy changed its name again into the Higher School of Arts in Bucharest. The Arts Institute of Bucharest was founded in 1948 and included the Faculties of Theatre and Music, Choreography and Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Art History. The Fine Arts Institute "

Nicolae Grigorescu Nicolae Grigorescu (; 15 May 1838 – 21 July 1907) was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. There is a metro station named after Grigorescu in Bucharest. It was given his name in 1990, before which it was named after Communist army ...

" was established in 1950. Since 1990 The Fine Arts Institute "Nicolae Grigorescu" changed its name into the Academy of Arts and, from 2002, its current name is The National University of Arts.

Faculties

The University is structurally divided into 3 faculties: * The Faculty of Fine Arts which includes the Departments of: Painting, Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Dynamic Image and Photography, Visual Art Education, Theory and Research. * The Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design which includes the Departments of: Design, Fashion Design, Textile Design and Textile Arts, 9 Mural Art, Ceramics-Glass-Metal, and Set Design. * The Faculty of Art History and Theory comprises 2 Departments: Art History and Theory and Conservation and Restoration. Since 2012, the elected rector of the National University of Arts in Bucharest is Professor

Cătălin Bălescu Cătălin Bălescu (born January 6, 1962) is a Romanian visual artist and a university professor at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest. Bălescu is the rector of The National University of Arts in Bucharest ...

Notable professors and alumni

Béla Nagy Abodi Béla Nagy Abodi (Hungarian: ''Abodi Nagy Béla''; 13 July 1918 – 9 December 2012) was a Hungarian painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca. He studied in the class of Camil Ressu at the Academia de Belle-Arte in Buc ...

Ioan Andreescu Ion Andreescu (; 15 February 1850 – 22 October 1882) was a Romanian painter. Biography He was the son of Andrei Dobrescu and Anastasia Pencovico. It is unknown if he was born in Bucharest or in another one of his parents' residences in the vic ...

Corneliu Baba Corneliu Baba (; 18 November 1906, Craiova – 28 December 1997) was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books. Early life Having first studied under his father, the academic painte ...

Ignat Bednarik Ignat Bednarik (March 8, 1882 – March 11, 1963) was a Romanian painter who worked in almost every genre of painting before devoting himself purely to watercolor. He was also interested in decorative art, design, interior decoration and book illu ...

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Constantin Brâncuși Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian Sculpture, sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of ...

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Victor Brauner Victor Brauner (, also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealist movement. Early life He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufacturer who subseque ...

Ștefan Câlția Ștefan Câlția (born May 15, 1942) is a contemporary Romanian painter. Born in Brașov, he attended the arts and music high school in Timișoara from 1959 to 1963, having Julius Podlipny as a teacher. He then graduated in 1970 from the Nicolae G ...

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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 Bu ...

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Nicolae Dărăscu Nicolae Dărăscu (February 18, 1883 – August 14, 1959) was a Romanian painter. He was influenced by Impressionism and Neo-impressionism. Biography Born in Giurgiu, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1902 and ...

Vasile Drăguț Vasile Drăguț (January 9, 1928—November 1, 1987) was a Romanian art critic and academic. Born in Murgași, Dolj County, he graduated from Saint Sava National College in Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and ...

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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 Buchares ...

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 Gâlm ...

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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, Dimi ...

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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 Ar ...

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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 ...

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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 Da ...

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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, ...

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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 hi ...

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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 ...

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Paul Neagu Paul Neagu (1938-2004) was a Romanian artist living in England who worked in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor. He died on 16 June 2004 in London. His influences included Cubism, Marcel Duchamp, Constantin ...

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George Oprescu George Oprescu (27 November 1881 – 13 August 1969) was a Romanian historian, art critic and collector. Born into a poor family, he developed a taste for the fine arts early in life, as well as for the French language, which he taught into his fo ...

Dimitrie Paciurea Dimitrie Paciurea (; 2 November (1873 or 1875) – 14 July 1932) was a Romanian sculptor. His representational and symbolic style contrasts strongly to the more abstract style of his contemporary and co-national Constantin Brâncuși. Born in ...

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Stefan Ramniceanu Stefan Ramniceanu (born Ștefan Râmniceanu, 15 August 1954) is a Romanian painter and visual artist. According to the philosopher and critic Andrei Pleșu, Ramniceanu is "one of those artists who know how to seduce, surprise and irritate; in ot ...

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Eugen Schileru Eugen Schileru (pen name of Eugen Schiller; September 13, 1916–August 10, 1968) was a Romanian art and literary critic, essayist and translator. Born in Brăila, his parents were Henri Schiller, an otorhinolaryngologist, and his wife Maria ...

Francisc Șirato Francisc Şirato (August 15, 1877, Craiova, Principality of Romania - August 4, 1953, Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania) was a Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Sout ...

Constantin Stăncescu Constantin Stăncescu (20 October 1837, Bucharest – 8 June 1909, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter, art critic, teacher and translator. Biography He was born into a wealthy family. He initially studied law, but also took drawing and painting l ...

Jean Alexandru Steriadi Jean Alexandru Steriadi (29 October 1880 – 23 November 1956) was a Romanian painter and drawing artist. He made portraits and compositions based on a strong, expressive drawing; then he evolved towards impressionistic Impressionism was a ...

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Marian Zidaru Marian Zidaru (born 22 August 1956, Balotești, Ilfov, Romania) is a Romanian artist. Studies * 1991–1995 Assistant to Sculpture Department of Bucharest National University of Arts * 1977–1981 Fine Arts Institute "Nicolae Grigorescu – ta ...

* Andu Mărginean

External links

UN Arte official website
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