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BIOGRAPHY

Biography
(Sarsânlar, Bulgaria, 1929)

Academic studies:
1950 - 1956 - „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, with professor Boris Caragea, Bucharest
since 1959 – Lecturer at the în „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, Bucharest.
 

PROJECTS

Solo exhibitions:
1969 – Dalles Hall, Bucharest (catalogue with a Foreword by Vasile Drăguț);
1975 – Images from Italy, Exhibition of Painting in cera-pastel, Bacău;
1997 – The Lake and the Paparude (catalogue), Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawing, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest.

Group exhibitions*:
1969 – Exhibition of Romanian art - Torino, Italy;
                                                            - Belgrade, Serbia;
1972 – Exhibition of Sculpture in open space, Mogoșoaia, Ilfov;
         - Exhibition of contemporary Sculpture, München, Germany;
1975 - Plastik und Blumen, Berlin, Germany;
1976 - Hommage à Brâncuși, Musée Galliera, Paris, France;
1984 – Space, action and metaphor, Museum of the Village, Bucharest;
1992 - 6 Romanian contemporary artists, ¾ Floor Gallery, National Theatre, Bucharest.

Symposia:
1994 - George Apostu International Centre of Sculpture, Bacău;

Museums:
  - Museum of Art - Bacău;
                              - Botoşani;
                              - Constanța;
                              - Ploiești, Prahova;
 - National Museum of Art in Romania, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Central Military Museum, Bucharest.

Monumental works:
1960 - Music (stone), Astoria Hotel, Arad;
1964 – Children Game (stone), Herăstrău Park, Bucharest;
1976 - Miorița, Herăstrău Park, Bucharest;
         -Mihai Viteazul (equestrian statue), with A. Gheorghiță, Central Square, Oradea, Bihor.

Distinctions:
1960 – Prize of the Ministry of Culture;
1962 – Prize of the Ministry of Education.


*since 1957 he takes part in the State Annual Exhibition organized in Romania (The Socialist Republic of Romania).
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barbosa, Octavian, Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani, Editura Meridiane, București, 1976.
Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D, Colecția SINTEZE, Editura META, 2001, p. 100.
Grozdea, Mircea, Sculptori români contemporani, Editura Meridiane, București, 1984.
Vlasiu, Ioana (coord.), Dicționarul sculptorilor din România. Secolele XIX-XX, vol. I, lit. A-G, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2011, pp. 110 - 111.
 
Constantinescu, Plasticieni români, Paideia, Bucureşti, 2008.
Florea, Vasile, Arta românească modernă și contemporană, Editura Meridiane, București, ediția a 2-a, 1982.
Grigorescu, Dan, Idee și sensibilitate. Direcții și tendințe în arta contemporană românească, Editura Meridiane, București, 1991.
Irimie, Cornel, Dumitrescu, Florentina, Paleolog, Andrei, Arta lemnului la români, București, 1975, p. 42.
Saur Allgemaine Kunstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten un Volker, K. G. Saur München-Leipzig, 1960 - 1962.

Arta, nr. 12, 1969, p. 38.
Arta, nr. 4-5/1971, pp. 56 - 57.