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Romanian artists
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110 artists
Adrian Ghenie
Globally acclaimed painter of history's ghosts in smeared, cinematic paint.
Baia Mare, Maramureș
Alexandra Croitoru
Photographer probing nation, power and gender.
Bucharest
Alexandre Istrati
Lyrical abstract painter of the School of Paris, heir of Brâncuși.
Dorohoi, Botoșani
Alexandru Ciucurencu
Colourist of intense reds and luminous figures.
Tulcea
Alexandru Rădvan
Expressive painter of myth, history and violence.
Bucharest
Ana Lupaș
Textile and land-art pioneer working with Transylvanian village rituals.
Cluj-Napoca
Andra Ursuța
New York-based sculptor of glassy, unsettling bodies and dark satire.
Salonta, Bihor
Andrei Pandele
Photographer who secretly documented 1980s Bucharest.
Bucharest
André Cădere
Nomad artist of the painted wooden bars, carried through the streets of Paris.
Warsaw (Romanian artist)
Arthur Segal
Expressionist and Dada participant, inventor of 'equivalence' painting.
Iași
Arthur Verona
Painter of luminous rural scenes, a founder of 'Tinerimea artistică'.
Bucharest
Avigdor Arikha
Holocaust survivor who became a great painter from life.
Rădăuți, Suceava
Barbu Iscovescu
Revolutionary painter who portrayed Avram Iancu.
Bucharest
Bogdan Vlăduță
Cluj painter of empty interiors and suspended time.
Cluj-Napoca
Brassaï
Brașov-born 'eye of Paris', poet of the city by night.
Brașov
Camil Ressu
Monumental painter of peasant life and influential professor.
Galați
Carol Popp de Szathmari
Painter and court photographer — one of the world's first war photographers.
Cluj
Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck
Muralist and the first woman professor at a European fine-arts academy.
Câineni, Vâlcea
Ciprian Mureșan
Cluj artist of laborious copied drawings and dark-humoured videos.
Dej, Cluj
Constantin Brâncuși
The father of modern sculpture — forms reduced to their pure essence.
Hobița, Gorj
Constantin Lecca
Pioneer of Romanian history painting and church murals.
Brașov
Cornel Brudașcu
Cluj painter of pop-tinged portraits, a forerunner of the Cluj School.
Mihai Viteazu, Cluj
Corneliu Baba
Great portraitist and painter of the tragic 'Mad Kings'.
Craiova
Dan Perjovschi
Witty wall-drawer of global politics, drawing directly on museum walls.
Sibiu
Dan Voinea
Painter of satirical, crowded fables of contemporary life.
Craiova
Daniel Spoerri
Nouveau Réalisme artist of the 'snare-pictures' and Eat Art.
Galați
Dimitrie Paciurea
Symbolist sculptor of chimeras and Brâncuși's early mentor.
Bucharest
Duiliu Marcu
Architect of monumental interwar modernism.
Calafat, Dolj
Dumitru Ghiață
Painter of serene villages, churches and Romanian landscape.
Calafat, Dolj
Elena Popea
Pioneering woman painter of Transylvanian and Mediterranean landscapes.
Brașov
Francisc Șirato
Lyrical painter of Balchik and peasant women, member of the 'Group of Four'.
Craiova
Frederic Storck
Sculptor of portraits and monuments; husband of Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck.
Bucharest
George Apostu
Sculptor of the 'Father and Son' series, carved in wood and stone.
Stănișești, Bacău
Geta Brătescu
Central figure of Eastern European conceptual art — the studio as a world.
Ploiești, Prahova
Gheorghe Petrașcu
Painter of dense, jewel-like matter — interiors, still lifes and Venetian views.
Tecuci, Galați
Gheorghe Tattarescu
Neoclassical portraitist and church painter, co-founder of the Bucharest School of Fine Arts.
Focșani, Vrancea
Géza Vida
Sculptor of Maramureș folklore in carved wood.
Baia Mare, Maramureș
Hans Mattis-Teutsch
Abstract pioneer from Brașov, painter of 'Soul Flowers'.
Brașov
Hedda Sterne
The only woman among the Abstract Expressionist 'Irascibles'.
Bucharest
Henri Catargi
Subtle modernist of still lifes, landscapes and nudes.
Bucharest
Horia Bernea
Painter of hills, columns and sacred light; refounder of the Peasant Museum.
Bucharest
Horia Creangă
Pioneer of Romanian modernist architecture.
Bucharest
Ioana Nemeș
Artist of the 'Monthly Evaluations', a diary measured in colour.
Bucharest
Ion Andreescu
Austere, lyrical landscape painter whose short life produced masterpieces of colour.
Bucharest
Ion Bitzan
Neo-avant-garde artist of book-objects and diptychs.
Bucharest
Ion Georgescu
Academic sculptor of the Gheorghe Lazăr statue.
Bucharest
Ion Grigorescu
Performance and film pioneer who made private, political art under dictatorship.
Bucharest
Ion Irimescu
Classical-modern sculptor who worked for over eight decades.
Preutești, Suceava
Ion Jalea
Monumental sculptor who kept carving after losing an arm in WWI.
Casimcea, Tulcea
Ion Mincu
Architect who created the Neo-Romanian style.
Focșani, Vrancea
Ion Negulici
Painter of the 1848 revolutionaries.
Câmpulung, Argeș
Ion Nicodim
Painter and tapestry maker of archetypal, mythic forms.
Constanța
Ion Theodorescu-Sion
Champion of a modern art rooted in Romanian folk tradition.
Ianca, Brăila
Ion Țuculescu
Doctor-turned-painter of totemic eyes and folk-rug rhythms.
Craiova
Iosif Berman
Father of Romanian photojournalism and ethnographic photography.
Burdujeni, Suceava
Iosif Iser
Expressive painter of Tatar women, harlequins and the Dobrujan Orient.
Ploiești, Prahova
Irina Botea
Video artist who re-enacts history, including the 1989 revolution.
Bucharest
Isidore Isou
Founder of Lettrism in post-war Paris.
Botoșani
Jacques Hérold
Surrealist of 'crystallized' figures and co-creator of the Marseille tarot.
Piatra Neamț
Jean Alexandru Steriadi
Refined painter and printmaker of landscapes, ports and portraits.
Bucharest
Jules Perahim
Surrealist painter and caricaturist of the Bucharest avant-garde.
Bucharest
János Thorma
Leader of the Baia Mare colony for four decades.
Kiskunhalas (Hungary)
Karl Storck
Founder of modern sculpture teaching in Romania.
Hanau (Germany)
Lia Perjovschi
Founder of the Contemporary Art Archive and the 'Knowledge Museum'.
Sighișoara, Mureș
Lidia Kotzebue
Sculptor of the Monument to the Heroes of the Air in Bucharest.
Moscow (Russia)
Lucia Dem. Bălăcescu
Painter of Balchik light, flowers and interiors.
Bucharest
Lucian Grigorescu
Vibrant colourist of Bucharest streets, Balchik and Mediterranean light.
Medgidia, Constanța
M. H. Maxy
Constructivist painter, designer and editor of the magazine Integral.
Brăila
Magdalena Rădulescu
Paris-based painter of naïve-modern, colourful figures.
Bucharest
Marcel Janco
Co-founder of Dada in Zürich and modernist architect of Bucharest.
Bucharest
Margareta Sterian
Painter, ceramicist and poet with a dreamlike, expressionist palette.
Buzău
Marilena Preda Sânc
Video and performance pioneer exploring the body and power.
Bucharest
Marius Bercea
Painter of sunlit, uncanny modernist landscapes.
Cluj-Napoca
Medi Wechsler Dinu
Watercolourist of Balchik who lived to 107.
Bucharest
Mihai Olos
Creator of 'Olospolis', a universal city built from a wooden joint.
Ariniș, Maramureș
Milița Petrașcu
Modernist sculptor, student of Matisse and Brâncuși.
Chișinău
Mircea Cantor
Poetic installation and video artist, winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
Oradea, Bihor
Mircea Suciu
Cluj painter of haunting monotypes and ghostly figures.
Baia Mare, Maramureș
Mișu Popp
Prolific portraitist of 19th-century Wallachian and Transylvanian society.
Brașov
Mona Vătămanu
Artist (with Florin Tudor) of works on history, labour and utopia.
Constanța
Natalia Dumitrescu
Abstract painter in Paris and guardian of Brâncuși's studio.
Bucharest
Nicolae Dărăscu
Luminous colourist of Venice, Balchik and the sea.
Giurgiu
Nicolae Grigorescu
Founder of modern Romanian painting — ox carts, shepherd girls and luminous landscapes.
Pitaru, Dâmbovița
Nicolae Tonitza
Master of children's portraits with wide, melancholic eyes.
Bârlad, Vaslui
Nicolae Vermont
Co-founder of the 'Tinerimea artistică' society and painter of urban life.
Bacău
Nina Arbore
Modernist painter and illustrator, a victim of the Soviet Gulag.
Bucharest
Octav Băncilă
Socially engaged realist, painter of the 1907 peasant revolt.
Botoșani
Olga Greceanu
Painter who revived Byzantine forms in modern religious art.
Bucharest
Oscar Han
Sculptor of monuments and portraits, member of the 'Group of Four'.
Bucharest
Ovidiu Maitec
Master of carved wood: gates, birds and flights.
Arad
Paul Neagu
London-based sculptor of the 'Hyphen' and the 'Generative Arts Group'.
Bucharest
Paul Păun
Poet-artist of the Bucharest surrealist group.
Bucharest
Petre Antonescu
Architect of Bucharest's Arch of Triumph.
Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău
Reuven Rubin
Galați-born pioneer of modern Israeli painting.
Galați
Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna
Painter of village life, horses and fairs.
Pitești, Argeș
Sabin Bălașa
Cosmic romantic, painter of the 'Hall of Lost Steps' in Iași.
Corlate, Dolj
Samuel Mützner
Traveller-impressionist who painted Japan, Venice and Balchik.
Bucharest
Saul Steinberg
The New Yorker's great draughtsman of modern life.
Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău
Sava Henția
Transylvanian-born painter of genre scenes and the War of Independence.
Sâmbăteni, Arad
Simon Hollósy
Founder of the Baia Mare artists' colony.
Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș
Sándor Ziffer
Expressive colourist of the second Baia Mare generation.
Eger (Hungary)
Theodor Aman
History painter and founder of Romanian art education.
Câmpulung, Argeș
Theodor Pallady
Aristocratic modernist, friend of Matisse, master of nudes and still lifes.
Iași
Vasile Kazar
Graphic artist of Maramureș life and old age.
Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș
Victor Brauner
Surrealist visionary of the eye, magic and hybrid creatures.
Piatra Neamț
Victor Man
Painter of dark, enigmatic portraits and saints.
Cluj-Napoca
Șerban Savu
Painter of quiet, socialist-realist-tinged scenes of post-communist leisure and work.
Sighișoara, Mureș
Ștefan Câlția
Painter of dreamlike, fairy-tale worlds of angels and gardens.
Brașov
Ștefan Dimitrescu
Painter of Moldavian peasants, member of the 'Group of Four'.
Huși, Vaslui
Ștefan Luchian
'The painter of flowers' — a post-impressionist who painted through paralysis.
Ștefănești, Botoșani