Radu Drăgoescu
Radu Drăgoescu (born June 17, 1914 in Paris , † December 7, 1999 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter and chess composer .
Drăgoescu graduated from Janson de Sailly and from 1932 to 1936 attended the "Julian" academy of painting and sculpture in Paris. In 1939 he received a license for letters and philosophy at the University of Bucharest.
From June 1941 to December 1945 Drăgoescu was a cartographer for the Romanian army during World War II . During this time he married Elena Popescu in 1942, who gave birth to their daughter Șerbana Drăgoescu a year later, who also embarked on an artistic career and since 2000 he has signed an annual painting by her father to the Romanian Chess Federation for the prize named after him to promote chess composition.
In 1950 the family moved permanently to Bucharest, where he became a member of the Uniunii Artistilor Plastici the following year, after several of his paintings were shown at major exhibitions.
After his retirement in 1974, Drăgoescu turned to chess composition, in which he was awarded the title of Master of Art Chess by the Romanian Chess Federation in 1990.
swell
- Stelian Lambă: Euxinus Pontus no.10, October - December 2009. pp. 121–126; according to: Radu Drăgoescu: De la pictură la șah și invers . Ed. Maiko, Bucharest 2009
Web links
- Biographical data at bcub.ro ( Memento from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Romanian)
- Compositions by Radu Drăgoescu on the PDB server
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drăgoescu, Radu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian painter and chess composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1999 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |