Juliana Fabritius-Dancu
Juliana Fabritius-Dancu (born January 21, 1930 in Sibiu ; † August 7, 1986 in Bucharest ) was a Transylvanian-Saxon painter , folklorist and art historian from Romania .
Life
Juliana Fabritius was born as the daughter of the Hermannstadt architect Julius Alfred Fabritius and Gertrude Juliane Seraphin. At the age of 12 she took lessons from the graphic artist Hildegard Schieb , then from the Transylvanian-Saxon folklore painter Trude Schullerus . She completed the grammar school in Sibiu and studied in 1948/49 at the Art Academy in Bucharest. There she came under the spotlight of the secret police Securitate , was persecuted and arrested on charges of "espionage" and sentenced to two years in prison. After her release, she regularly took part in exhibitions organized by the Sibiu Department of the Union of Plastic Artists. In 1957 she married the art critic and journalist Dumitru Dancu.
For many years she worked closely with the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, the Village Museum and the Folklore Department of the Academy in Bucharest. Working as a freelance artist and author since 1967, she illustrated numerous specialist books and wrote about monographs
- the parish church of Sibiu (1968)
- the Heltau fortified church (1970)
- Trude Schullerus (1970)
- Harald Meschendörfer (1984)
translated over ten art volumes and published numerous historical and art-historical articles in magazines and newspapers.
Juliana Fabritius-Dancu has rendered outstanding services to the research, recording, presentation and publication of the art and architectural monuments of the Transylvanian Saxons .
Works (selection)
- Trude Schullerus. Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1974
- Peasant reverse glass painting in Romania . Together with Dumitru Dancu, Union Verlag Berlin, 1980
- Turnuri Transilvănene / Transylvanian Defense Towers. Transilvania Verlag, 1982
- Saxon fortified churches in Transylvania , Transilvania magazine, 1980, 1983
- Walk through Old Sibiu , Transilvania magazine, 1983
- Harald Meschendörfer (artist monograph). Kriterion Verlag Bucharest, 1984
- Romanian icons on glass (Romanian traditions and customs). Wayne State University Press. 1982. ISBN 0814317111
- Old Kronstadt. Pictures of a city. Watercolors by Juliana Fabritius-Dancu . Published by Hansgeorg von Killyen and Karl Dendorfer, Johannis Reeg Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-937320-34-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Juliana Fabritius-Dancu in the catalog of the German National Library
- Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Saxon fortified churches in Transylvania
- Cronen - the picturesque city , in the Transylvanian newspaper
- Come with '74, the fortified churches of the upper Harbachtal
- Come with '75, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Late Gothic in the wine country
- Come with '76, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Biertan and the castles of the neighboring communities
- Come with '78, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Farmers and castles of Burzenland
- Come with '79, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Romanesque architecture in the Zibins plane
- Come with '80, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Through the Harbachtal on the trail of the Romanesque
- Come with '81, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Castles in the Repser Land
- Come with '85, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Schässburg and farm castles in the area
- Come with '86, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu: Stately fortified churches - famous wine
- Juliana Fabritius-Dancu on the website of the Bucharest Village Museum
- Dusseldorf workshop talks of the NRW Artists 'Guild at the writers' table in the House of the German East (today the Gerhart-Hauptmann-House Foundation)
swell
- Prof. Dr. Walter Myß (Ed.): The Transylvanian Saxony LEXICON . Wort und Welt Verlag - Kraft Verlag, 1993. ISBN 3-8083-2018-4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabritius-Dancu, Juliana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fabritius, Juliana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian painter, folklorist and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sibiu |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1986 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |