Horațiu Dimitriu

Self-portrait of the artist

Horațiu Dimitriu (born February 4, 1890 in Târgu Jiu , † March 5, 1926 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter and graphic artist of Post-Impressionism . He took his motifs mostly from the rural community in Romania . He is the grandson of the influential painter Theodor Aman .

life and work

After he had finished the military high school, he went to Bavaria to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the drawing class of Gabriel von Hackl , then switched to the Paris École Nationale des Beaux-Arts , which he left again due to a falling out then continued his studies under Jean-Paul Laurens . Returning to the Romanian capital, Dimitriu showed four of his works in the Expoziția oficială a artiștilor în viață ('Official Exhibition of Living Artists') as well as five etchings in the show of the Tinerimea artistică ('Artistic Youth'), including the works Le maître Georges Enesco , Africa and Bravo Torrero .

In the same year a solo exhibition took place in Craiova , where he exhibited several landscapes , oil paintings , model studies, character heads and woodcuts . In 1918 he presented his latest works in a personal exhibition in Iași and in 1921 86 paintings, pastels , drawings, lithographs , decorative panels and etchings in Bucharest that had been created in Câmpulung , Craiova and Bucharest over the past few years . In the years that followed, it was shown in other exhibitions, again as part of the Tinerimea artistică and at the Bucharest Official Salon (Salonul oficial) . In 1925 he showed his paintings in a show alongside works by Nicolae Tonitza and Ștefan Dimitrescu in Sâmbăta de Sus . Horațiu Dimitrius' last solo exhibition during his lifetime took place in the Athenaeum in Bucharest and presented works created in Sâmbăta de Sus and Bucharest. He died of a lung disease on the day of the vernissage .

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  Ciobănaș (Shepherd Boy) , 1925

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  Portret de tânăr (Portrait of a Boy) , undated

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  Trei amici (Three Friends) , undated

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  Cabana (The Mountain Hut) , undated

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  View of a church , published in the cultural journal Gândirea , undated

literature

• Paul Rezeanu: Pictori puțin cunoscuți. Alma Verlag, Craiova 2009.
• Tudor Octavian: Pictori români uitați. NOI media print, Bucharest 2003, ISBN 973-7959-02-7 , p. 110f.

Web links

Commons : Horațiu Dimitriu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at aman.ro (Romanian; PDF file; 321 kB) ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry in the ADBK matriculation database