While destined to celebrate events and personalities of the national history, his monuments develop a definite rhetoric of the gestures and heroic atitudes. The forms are usually robust, full of life, in a conventional style, which combines the age’s realism cliché with the academic legacy.
Constantin Prut
(Turtucaia, 1919 - Bucharest, 1999)
Academic Studies:
1944 - 1946 - Free Academy of Fine Arts Guguianu, Bucharest;
1945 - 1976 - leads Army’s Fine Art Studio.
Solo exhibitions:
1947 - Army Theatre Hall, Bucharest;
1969 - Budapest, Hungary;
1970 - Warsaw, Poland;
1981 - Galatea Gallery, Bucharest;
1993 - Kansan, SUA;
- Denver, SUA.
Group exhibitions:
from 1948 - participating in national and municipal wards;
1954 - Venice Biennale, Italy;
1966 - International Exhibition the Ministry of Defence, Berlin, Germany;
1969 - Paramilitary International Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary;
1970 - „ Victoria against fascism ", Warsaw, Poland.
monumental work:
- Suvorov, Dumbrăveni, Vrancea;
- Mircea the Old, Constanta;
- Romanian Soldier Monument, Miercurea Ciuc and Nyíregyháza, Hungary;
- Michael the Brave, Cluj-Napoca;
- Ieremia Grigorescu”, Caracal, Olt;
- Nicolae Bălcescu, Sibiu;
- Decebal, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți;
- The Independence Monument, Constanta;
- The monumental complex Bogdan Voda, Rădăuţi, Suceava.
Awards:
1952 - State Prize;
1965 - honoured artist.
Barbosa, Octavian, Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani. Editura Meridiane, București, 1976.
Florea, Vasile; Lăptoiu, Negoiță, Cebuc, Alexandru, Enciclopedia artiștilor români contemporani, Editura ARC 2000, București, 1996.
Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D. Colecția Sinteze, Editura META, 2001, pp. 93 - 94.