Ion Andreescu

Ion Andreescu (* February 15, 1850 in Bucharest, † October 22, 1882 ibid ) is one of the most famous Romanian painter of Impressionism.

Biography

Andreescu came from a wealthy merchant family in Bucharest, where he was born in 1850. In 1869 he entered Theodor Aman's Fine Arts School, where he graduated with a diploma. In 1872 he became a teacher of drawing and calligraphy at the Bishop School in Buzău. 1873, he left the seminary back to first teach at the local Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu University and later, in 1875, at the trade school, also to change in Buzău. In 1878 he traveled to Paris to study there at the Academie Julian Libre. In the summer he painted at the Barbizon School where he met his idol Nicolae Grigorescu for the first time. In 1881 he returned, after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, back to his hometown of Bucharest, where he died the following year.

Although his works were exhibited with those of Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Pierre -Auguste Renoir, his life of poverty and a lack of recognition was coined. Early on, he was suffering from health problems, so he took his late true gift of artistic expression and painting. This also explains its extensive, creative work that does not allow indecision with his maturity and is exploring the need not to rely. Despite its position as an art teacher in the country, he began feverishly to paint new pictures. This setting did not fit his quiet way as a young man living alone. For him, art was a way to express itself, sublime and without ostentation. He always showed his great talent at work, so that his art was indeed manageable, but still immensely in their expression. Andreescu never stood apart from other Romanian artists, although he was inspired more by the art of Western Europe, which earns him a special position in the Romanian art history. When he turned the end of his stay in France approached, the impression of his pictures was even clearer by using a variety of colors and tuned to one another as it could have done only a great artist of his time.

The French art critic Jacques Lassaigne said of him: "You can certainly find no one among the plurality of Romanian artist whose personality more attractive and to tell whose life has more than the Ion Andreescu. He influenced definitely the Romanian art history "

Gallery

Street in Barbizon in summer

The oak

Chrysanthemum

Blumenfeld

Peasant woman with green scarf

Roses

Still life