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Romanian artists
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26 artists
Arthur Verona
Painter of luminous rural scenes, a founder of 'Tinerimea artistică'.
Bucharest
Camil Ressu
Monumental painter of peasant life and influential professor.
Galați
Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck
Muralist and the first woman professor at a European fine-arts academy.
Câineni, Vâlcea
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
Gheorghe Petrașcu
Painter of dense, jewel-like matter — interiors, still lifes and Venetian views.
Tecuci, Galați
Henri Catargi
Subtle modernist of still lifes, landscapes and nudes.
Bucharest
Ion Theodorescu-Sion
Champion of a modern art rooted in Romanian folk tradition.
Ianca, Brăila
Iosif Iser
Expressive painter of Tatar women, harlequins and the Dobrujan Orient.
Ploiești, Prahova
Jean Alexandru Steriadi
Refined painter and printmaker of landscapes, ports and portraits.
Bucharest
Lucia Dem. Bălăcescu
Painter of Balchik light, flowers and interiors.
Bucharest
Lucian Grigorescu
Vibrant colourist of Bucharest streets, Balchik and Mediterranean light.
Medgidia, Constanța
Magdalena Rădulescu
Paris-based painter of naïve-modern, colourful figures.
Bucharest
Margareta Sterian
Painter, ceramicist and poet with a dreamlike, expressionist palette.
Buzău
Nicolae Dărăscu
Luminous colourist of Venice, Balchik and the sea.
Giurgiu
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
Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna
Painter of village life, horses and fairs.
Pitești, Argeș
Samuel Mützner
Traveller-impressionist who painted Japan, Venice and Balchik.
Bucharest
Theodor Pallady
Aristocratic modernist, friend of Matisse, master of nudes and still lifes.
Iași
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