Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna (May 7, 1886 – February 17, 1975) was a

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n painter. Born in

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into an

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family, he finished high school in his native town before attending the Royal Academy of Arts at Berlin from 1904 to 1909, studying under Erich Hancke,

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and

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. He then returned to Romania, where he worked prodigiously on scenes and portraits drawn from village life, houses, still lifes, churches and monasteries. He died in

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. Zoe Apostolache Stoicescu
"Pictorul Rudolf Schweitzer Cumpăna - creator și donator de artă"
in ''Revista Muzeelor'', 4/2005, p.93; accessed June 17, 2013

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1886 births 1975 deaths People from Pitești Romanian people of German descent Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century Romanian painters Romanian expatriates in Germany {{Romania-painter-stub