Kimon Loghi | Symbolist / Art Nouveau painter

Being part of the generation of artists who created in the romantic era of Romanian and universal art, Kimon Loghi painted in warm, vivid colors that give the feeling of being authentic and natural.

His works are compositionally balanced and deal with themes related to nature: landscapes and still lifes.

"One thing worth noting in Kimon Loghi's paintings is the fact that the characters are a sporadic presence, the emphasis being on the rendering of nature and atmosphere".

Kimon Loghi (1871-1952) was a Romanian painter of Aromanian origin.

Kimon Laghi was born in 1871 in the Greek city of Serres, at that time under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

Paul Molda | Impressionist painter

Paul Molda (Pavel Ioan Popescu) was born in 1884, in Negulești, Tecuci, Galați county, and died in 1955, in Bucharest.

He attended the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

He painted both landscapes and portraits and restored the painting of several churches.

Romanian Art History and Sitemap

Romanian art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including Romanian architecture, woodwork, textiles and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of Romania.

The production of art in Romania is as old as the Paleolithic, an example being a cave painting from the Cuciulat Cave (Sălaj County).

During the Neolithic, multiple cultures lived on the modern territory of Romania.

Their material culture included pottery and abstract clay statuettes decorated with geometric patterns.

These may give hints on the way these civilizations used to dress and maybe tattoo.

Demetre Chiparus | Art Déco sculptor

Darius Hulea, 1987 | Metal Wire Sculptures

Darius Hulea is a Romanian contemporary artist born in Alba Iulia, who is specialized in metal sculpture.

He graduated the University of Art and Design from Cluj Napoca, Sculpture section, and in 2012 he become member of the Artists Union.

In 2013 he won the price "Grigore Bradea", a distinction given only to the most talented Romanian sculptures.

Irina Biatturi, 1975 | Art Déco painter

A graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy and the N. Tonitza Art High School, Bucharest, Irina Biatturi has been in contact with painting since she was very young.

After living for a few years in Mexico and New Zealand, she now lives and works in Antibes, a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

Her oil paintings, which have women and sensuality as their subject, are inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but also by the compositions of the Italian Renaissance masters, for the light and the colours.

Rodica Toth Poiata, 1960 | Figurative painter

Rodica Toth Poiata is a contemporary Romanian painter who was born in Brasov.

Graduated: Plastic Arts University, Timisoara.

Affiliations: Romanian Plastic Artists Union (UAPR).

Participant at various personal, group, national and international shows.

She was professor of art at high-school in Brasov and Sulina (where he resided for six to seven years), after which it was established in Bucharest.

Nicolae Vermont | Genre painter

Nicolae Vermont 1866-1932 was one of the masters of Romanian Realist painting and one of the most interesting painters, muralists and draftsmen of his time, as many viewed him as an associate of Stefan Luchian.

He was a prolific and surprisingly innovative artist, with a strong, original style and manner and quite a broad choice of subjects, but he preferred landscapes and still lifes.

Vermont was one of the most interesting and influential voices of his generation, marking and changing the landscape of Romanian painting, as he always tried to offer something more, something new, to challenge rules and themes, to offer the viewer an artistic experience that was strikingly beautiful and shockingly fresh and alive. A great master and a great name.

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Gyuri Lohmuller was born in Gataia, Romania.

Self-educated painter, having exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France and Hungary, is willing to share his inner world.

His paintings reflect his deepest emotions.

"The emotion", he says, "Is Art".

He prefers the surrealist themes.

David Croitor, 1958 | Old street of Bucharest

Born in Suceava, Romanian painter David Croitor, graduated from the Faculty of Geology University of Bucharest, he studied painting and drawing with Dmitry Loghina and Anita Aurel in Bucharest.

Debut solo exhibition was held in 1986 in Bucharest. Participated in many collective and personal exhibitions.

Mihai Criste, 1975 | Surrealist painter

Mihai Criste | The Kiss of Autumn

Mihai Criste is a creative Romanian painter who is fascinated by abstraction, mystery and surrealism🎨.

He graduated from the Visual Arts Academy in Romania in 2001 and since then has been participating in group exhibitions along with illustrating children’s books, such as the The Wizard of Oz.

The graceful composition of his paintings, along with his creative concepts and titles, give his pieces a special touch and him a great degree of distinction.

Demetre Chiparus | Art Déco sculptor

Demétre Haralamb Chiparus, also known as Dumitru Haralamb Chipăruș (16 September 1886 - 22 January 1947) was a Romanian Art Déco* era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris, France. He was one of the most important sculptors of the Art Deco era.

Life

Demétre H. Chiparus was born in Dorohoi, Romania, the son of Haralamb and Saveta Chiparus. In 1909 he went to Italy, where he attended the classes of Italian* sculptor Raffaello Romanelli.

Dorina Costras, 1967 | Surrealist Figurative painter

Dorina Costras was born in Iasi, Romania.

Costras worked as a designer and as teacher of fine arts. Now I collaborate with decorating companies as indoor designer and I paint.

I like to transpose on canvas inner states, to interpret and render them.

I paint from imagination and the favorite theme whereat revert again and again is costumes and masks of carnival and also a fantastic universe with the atmosphere of the story away from our days. I alternate between them depending on my mood and inspiration of the moment.

Zorina Baldescu, 1954 | Fantasy painter /Illustrator

Born in Bucharest, Zorina Baldescu has been working as a children’s books illustrator for a number of years now.

She specializes in creating delightful fairy tale images featuring mermaids, princesses, fairies, unicorns and more.

Zorina’s images have been licensed for jigsaw puzzles and stationery products worldwide. Her images are perfect for any young girls range.

Mihai Teodor Olteanu, 1953 | Impressionist painter

Born in Ludus, Mures County in Romania, Mihai Teodor Olteanu, a famous artist with a plurality of expressions, displays a series of original paintings, the expression of an artistic maturity that impresses every time the art loving audience effervescent, charming and harmonious, the paintings of the world class artist, Mihai Teodor Olteanu, are an odyssey in search of himself and of the true faith in a universe that is beyond our world. Each work is the expression of a perfect interweave of an inner silence and a storm of feelings, which complement each other to triumph in the explosion of the divine message.

Mihai Olteanu, 1962 | Pittore impressionista

Il pittore Mihai Olteanu è nato nel villaggio Rediu, Bira, contea di Neamt in Romania.

Diplomato alla Scuola Superiore di Arti Bacau nel 1980, con il professor Peter George Velea e nella classe di Pinca Petru.

Dal 1985 espone in mostre personali ed è presente in collezioni private in Romania, Canada, Stati Uniti, Svezia, Iraq, Germania, Grecia, Israele, Spagna.

Le sue opere sono presenti come Illustrazioni di libri e computer grafica - in romanzi, libri per bambini e monografie.

Hermin Abramovitch | Abstract photographer

Hermin Abramovitch is a talented photographer from Romania.

Currently living in Israel and working as a Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Manager at Harmonic at Harmonic. before he worked in Six Sigma Black Belt at GE Healthcare.

He studied at the Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti, Romania.

Victor Brauner | Surrealist painter

Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian Jewish sculptor and painter of surrealistic images.

Brauner was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a timber manufacturer who subsequently settled in Vienna with his family for a few years.

It is there that young Victor attended elementary school.

When his family returned to Romania in 1914, he continued his studies at the Evangelical school in Brăila.

His interests revolved around zoology during that period.

Mihai Olteanu, 1962 | Impressionist painter

Romanian painter Mihai Olteanu was born on the 19th April 1962, Rediu village, Bira commune, Neamt county.

Graduated the High School of Arts Bacau in 1980, Professor Gheorghe Velea and Pinca Petru class.

Works abroad: In private collections from: Canada, the U.S.A, Belgium, Sweden, Iraq, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Spain.

Octavian Florescu, 1957

Octavian Florescu was born in 1957 in the Southern Romanian town of Craiova. In 1978 he interrupted his university studies in engineering to become a full-time artist painter.

For five years he studied church painting and restoration which gave him the opportunity to learn and master all painting techniques from the ancient fresco to the contemporary oil and acrylic.

The influence of the Byzantine style is noticeable in all his work.

In 1989, while in Hungary, he completely dedicated himself to surrealism that allows him to best express his ideas.

Over the past 21 years his paintings have been seen in Austria, Canada, France, Hungary, Mexico, Romania, and the USA.

Zoltan Molnos | The Transylvanian Dalí

It is now more than 80 years since the Surrealism, in a smoky Parisian café, was officially born, After long decades of peak and slow agony, when the world was still celebrating its most famous master, Salvador Dali, far from the French and Spanish lands, in a small Transylvanian town, inhabited by hard-working people of Hungarian minority, the surrealism had its second birth on the canvas of a that time unknown young Romanian painter, Zoltán Molnos.

It might seem curious that the surrealism, the most spectacular limb of the avant-garde movement, which had its philosophy in protesting against the inhumanity of the “civilised” world, had its renaissance in a city from Romania.