Natalia Dumitresco

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Natalia Dumitresco or Natalia Dumitrescu (born December 20, 1915 in Bucharest , † July 3, 1997 in Chars ) was a Romanian - French abstract painter who is attributed to the Nouvelle École de Paris and Lyrical Abstraction .

Life

Dumitresco studied at the Art Academy in Bucharest with Francisc Sirato, graduated in 1939 and married the Romanian artist Alexandre Istrati in the same year , who gave her the first impetus for dealing with abstract painting. The couple moved to Paris in 1947. Via Georges Théodorescu, a Romanian scholarship holder for sculpture, the couple met the sculptor Constantin Brâncuși on October 19, 1947 and moved into a studio next to his in the Impasse Ronsin. They remained closely connected until his death in 1957. He used the two artists as his universal heirs. In 1958 they built their own studio on a piece of land they had left behind. In 1965, Dumitresco and Istrati received French citizenship. In 1977 they carried out a reconstruction of the Brâncuși studio in cooperation with the Center Pompidou and, in 1986, together with Pontus Hultén, published a monograph on Brâncuși's work. In 1969, the former director Heinz Fuchs , who was friends with the artists, was able to acquire the sculpture The Big Fish (1930) in a special campaign for the Kunsthalle Mannheim . At the beginning of the 1960s, Dumitresco met Margarete Lauter through her Parisian gallery owner Daniel Gervis and Heinz Fuchs . The encounter led to several presentations of their works in the Mannheim gallery von Lauter. Since then, Istrati and Dumitresco were close friends with the Lauter family.

Istrati and Dumitresco, like Constantin Brâncuși, found their final resting place in the Montparnasse cemetery . A common tombstone bears their three names.

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After the Second World War, Dumitresco was associated with the artistic movement of the Nouvelle École de Paris . She included artists such as Jean René Bazaine , Jean Dubuffet , Hans Hartung , Alexandre Istrati , Alfred Manessier , Georges Mathieu , Serge Poliakoff , Pierre Soulages , Nicolas de Staël , Maria Helena Vieira da Silva , Raoul Ubac , Bram van Velde and Wols . Dumitresco's painting is characterized by a compositional connection between graphic and painterly informal elements. Linear structures, which are based on variable geometric organisms, always form the basic framework of her lyrically abstract painting. With the help of tachistic brushwork, Dumitresco developed very subtle narrative color compositions that are metaphorically connected with natural becoming.

Prices

  • 1952 Prix du groupe Espace
  • 1955 Prix Kandinsky
  • 1959 Prix des Amateurs et Collectioneurs d'Art
  • 1959 Carnegie Price
  • 1969 1st Prix du Salon Internationale de la Femme   

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1946 Sala Dalles, Bucharest
  • 1956 Palais des Beaux-Arts , Bruxelles
  • 1959 Saidenberg Gallery, New York
  • 1960 Dumitresco / Istrati, Kölnischer Kunstverein ; Galerie de la Revue XXe siècle, Paris
  • 1963 Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 1964 HILT Gallery, Basel
  • 1965 Margarete Lauter Gallery , Mannheim
  • 1971 Lauter Gallery, Mannheim
  • 1974 Accrochage 74, Lauter Gallery, Mannheim
  • 1981 Lauter Gallery 1963–1981, Mannheim
  • 1981 Tokoro Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1986 Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Chamalières
  • 1994 Accrochage I - III; Lauter Gallery, Mannheim

literature

  • Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati : Kunsthalle Mannheim, Jan. 26 to February 24, 1963.
  • Pontus Hultén , Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati: Brancusi , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-76226-4
  • Natalia Dumitresco: peintures 1950-1987; Alexandre Istrati: peintures 1954-1987 , Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris 16 septembre-16 octobre 87.
  • Provenant of the atelier Alexandre Istrati (1915-1991), Natalia Dumitresco (1915-1997) , Y.-M. Le Roux & C. Morel, Paris 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DUMITRESCO, Natalia (Natalia Dumitrescu, dite) , ledelarge.fr
  2. ^ Pontus Hultén , Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati: Brancusi , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-76226-4
  3. ↑ Le grand poisson | Art gallery development. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Gallery Margarete Lauter: Natalia Dumitresco. 1965, accessed February 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Margarete Lauter's son, Rolf Lauter, was often a guest in the artists' studio in Paris and Cannes and was not only able to study their painting in dialogue with the artists, but also to learn many stories from the life of Constantin Brâncuși. He curated many exhibitions of the artists.
  6. ↑ Photo of the tombstone
  7. ^ Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati . Kunsthalle, Mannheim 1963 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 23, 2020]).
  8. ^ Pontus Hultén: Natalia Dumitresco: peintures 1950-1987; Alexandre Istrati: peintures 1954-1987 . Ed .: Musée des arts décoratifs. Union des arts décoratifs, Paris 1987, ISBN 978-2-901422-04-4 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 23, 2020]).
  9. ^ JJ Mathia, Drouot-Richelieu, Y.-M. Le Roux & C. Morel, Baron Ribeyre & associés: Provenant des ateliers Alexandre Istrati (1915-1991), Natalia Dumitresco (1915-1997). Y.-M. Le Roux & C. Morel, Paris 2006 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 23, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Dumitresco, Natalia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dumitresu, Natalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1997
Place of death Chars