Sever Burada

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The artist's studio on Rue Émile-Allez (1925)

Sever Burada (born Buradescu ; born January 14, 1896 in Craiova , † September 3, 1968 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter of the modern Romanian school who painted in the interwar period .

Life

Sever Burada liked painting from an early age. He was particularly impressed by the works of the painter Grigore Negoșanu . From this he also received his first drawing lessons. Burada studied at Craiova University as a student of the painter Ioan Stăncescu-Giovanni and the sculptor Ion Dumitriu-Bîrlad .

Due to his talent, Burada took part in the exhibition of the Craiover painters in 1914 as a student. A year later he started studying at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. During these four years he studied under the teachers George Demetrescu Mirea and Jean Alexandru Steriadi . After successfully completing his studies, Burada suffered from financial problems and so he made the decision to apply for the Nicolae Grigorescu art scholarship and finally received it, which could alleviate his financial plight.

This enabled him to study at the École Nationale de Beaux-Arts in Paris with artists such as Emile Bernard , Fernand Cormon , François Flameng and Lucien Simon . Critics now became aware of the talented painter, and Burada received numerous important prizes and awards. This is followed by courses in Fontenay-aux-Roses , in Bucharest and numerous exhibitions in the Salon des artistes français . In 1923 the French state bought one of his works, but it returned to Romania in 1926 . In the next few years Sever Burada exhibited in various representative exhibitions and took part in the major art salons of the time, for example the Oltenia art circle, the autumn salon , the Tinerimea artistică (“artistic youth”), the nude exhibition or exhibited in the Athenaeum .

Time after the war

Burada was sentenced to death on May 31, 1945, although he was politically inactive and did not hold any political office. Although the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, he was not granted freedom until shortly before his death. In the last years of his life he devoted himself entirely to painting, but could no longer build on the success of earlier times. In the opinion of his critics, the pictures he created during these years, unlike the ones he painted before his imprisonment, are no longer of cultural and historical importance. Probably due to the decades of imprisonment, Sever Burada is one of the forgotten Romanian painters of the interwar period.

Works

His paintings are characterized by their sensitive, fine and, above all, correct style. Burada's most famous paintings include:

  • "Spring awakening " (Desteptarea primăverii)
  • "Profile of a girl" (Profil de fată)
  • "In good thoughts" (Cu gânduri bune)
  • "Self-portrait" (Autoportret) - exhibited in 1932 in the Salon des artistes français , Muzeul Național Cotroceni (Bucharest)
  • "Blonder Akt" (Nud blond)
  • "Peasant woman from Dobrogea" (Țărancă din Dobrogea), Muzeul de Artă ( Constana )

Working in collections

Private

  • Anghel Ciobanu Collection
  • Collection Dragoş Muşatescu
  • Tudor Octavian Collection
  • Collection of Pavel Șușară

museum

literature

monograph

  • Tudor Octavian : Viata si opera pictorului Sever Burada. (The life and work of the painter Sever Burada) Pro Editura si Tipografie, Bucuresti 2010, ISBN 973-145-258-6 .

Others

  • Sever Burada: A painter innocently damned from Historia - Magazine for History (ro) - Year V, No. 44, August 2005
  • Forgotten Romanian Artists (Pictori români uitați) , Tudor Octavian, 2003, NOI media print publisher, Bucharest
  • Fine arts in Oltenia 1821-1944 (Artele plastic în Oltenia 1821-1944) , Paul Rezeanu, 1980, Verlag Scrisul românesc, Craiova

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tudor Octavian : Viata si opera pictorului Sever Burada. , Pro Editura si Tipografie, Bucuresti 2010, p. 56, 57, 59
  2. ↑ ibidem 8, 14, 22
  3. ↑ ibidem p. 9, 14, 17, etc.
  4. ↑ ibidem p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Burada, Sever
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buradescu, Sever (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Craiova
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1968
Place of death Bucharest