(Gemenea, Suceava, 1925 - Bucharest, 2012)
Academic studies:
1947 - 1950 – Institute of Art, Iaşi;
1952 - „Ion Andreescu” Institute of Plastic Arts, sculpture department, with professor Ion Irimescu, Cluj-Napoca.
Professional activity:
worked at the Ministry of Culture.
since 1953 – Member of the Plastic Artists Union in Romania
Group exhibitions:
since 1953 - debut, annual and regional exhibitions;
1955 – International Youth Festival, Warsaw, Poland;
1967 - Gentleness (stone), Pitești, Argeș;
1968 – Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
1975 - Exhibition Accomplishments of the national economy, Moscow, Russia;
1980 – Republican exhibition of plastic art Avenues of socialism, Bucharest;
Monumental works:
1953 - Victor Babeș (bust), Cluj-Napoca;
1954 - Ion Andreescu (compositional bust), Bucharest;
1958 – The spear thrower, Dinamo Stadium, Bucharest;
1959 – Monument of the Romanian soldier (bronze), Arad;
- F.J.Qurie (bust), Bucharest;
1960 – Monument of the country’s heroes, Arad;
1963 - Boating (stone), Mamaia, Constanța;
1969 - Radu from Afumați, Târgoviște, Dâmbovița;
- Simion Bărnuțiu (compositional bust), Șimleul Silvanei;
1977 – Monument of the 1907 Upraising, Flămânzi, Botoșani;
1978 - G. Coşbuc (bronze), Bistrița.
Symposia:
1974 - Moscow, Russia.
Museums:
- National Art Museum of Romania.
Distinctions:
- Third Prize at the Youth Festival from Warsaw and Moscow;
- Decorated with the medal „Cultural Merit" class I and „Cultural Order" class III.
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Dragu Dumitriu, Victoria, Poveşti cu statui şi fântâni din Bucureşti, Editura Vremea, Bucureşti, 2010.
C. Benedict, în: „Arta”, nr. 4, 1959.
Gh. Poenaru, în: „Arta”, nr. 5, 1962.
Surse web:
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavril_Covalschi