Elena Popea

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Self portrait

Elena Popea (born April 15, 1879 in Kronstadt , † 1941 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter .

Life

Elena Popea, born as the daughter of the teacher Ioan Popea in Kronstadt, which was still part of Austria-Hungary at the time , now the Romanian Brașov, began her training around 1900. Her early teachers, Professor Jank Angelo (1868–1940), the painter Johann Jakob and the Munich painter Caroline Kempter were close to German impressionism . She exhibited her works even before the First World War . In Paris, she met the painter Lucien Simon (1861–1945) and visited his workshop, as well as that of the Parisian illustrator and painter André Lhote (1885–1962). After a long stay in Brittany , she returned to Romania.

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Her oeuvre includes landscape painting , still life flowers and depictions of people at work or at events (processions, market scenes, field work). Her pictures can be found in various museums, including the Toma Stelian Museum in Bucharest.

  • Interior din castelul Bran

  • Bărci

  • Biserica din Câmpulung - Muscel

  • Femeie cu capră

  • Secerători

  • Târg în Ardeal

Exhibitions

literature

  • Popea, Elena . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 454 .
  • Radu Popica, Pavel Şuşarǎ, Iulia Mesea: Elena Popea. Editura Muzeului de Artä Brașov, Brașov 2010, ISBN 978-606-92557-1-1 . digital (PDF; 3.3 MB)

Web links

Commons : Elena Popea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radu Popica, Pavel Şuşarǎ, Iulia Mesea: Elena Popea.
  2. ↑ a b Popea, Elena. In: Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century.
personal data
SURNAME Popea, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1941
Place of death Bucharest