Ion Valentin Anestin

Ion Valentin Anestin ( born December 24, 1900 in Bucharest, † December 6, 1963 ) was a Romanian cartoonist, painter, sculptor, journalist and playwright. Above all, his political cartoons and art criticism made ​​him known. He is the father of Ion Nuni Anestin, who also works as an artist and actor.

Biography

Ion Valentin Anestin was born into a family originating from Craiova in the Romanian capital Bucharest. His father, Theodor Anestin was a craftsman and worked for mayor of Bucharest. His grandfather Ion Anestin was an actor and friend of the famous dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale. From 1918 to 1920 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown of Bucharest, where he was taught by the sculptor Franz Storck. He then moved to the Academy of Fine Art, which was founded by Arthur Verona.

After 1921 Anestin theater and art historian, as he wrote numerous pieces themselves. During this time he also gained his satirical caricatures and portraits attention that were influenced very draw of the French style for the first time. Together with the writer Mircea Eliade, he published the magazine Est -Vest, which published in 1927 for the first time, but was already stopped after a few issues.

In 1928 he accompanied Vladimir Donescu whose magazine Vremea he edited from 1931 to 1943, while he was responsible for the graphic design of the journal. He also participated in a large number of different newspapers ( including Epoca, Adevărul Literar şi Artistic, Timpul, Gluma, Cuvantul Liber, and the newspaper of the Romanian Communist Party Bluze Albastre ) and certain characters while the arts throughout the interwar period. Anestin which was set politically to the left, drew satirical portraits of famous politicians of his day, both of Romania ( Nicolae Titulescu, Alexandru Averescu, Lucian Blaga, Ion Inculet, Ion Mihalache, Iuliu Maniu, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Octavian Goga ), but also by foreigners ( Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin ). In addition Anestin was known for the invention of the comic figure Ion Ion, which was a young man with bowler hat and umbrella or cylinder, but was not wearing a shirt or pants.

During the Second World War, a month ago the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, as Romania is still working with the Axis powers, to Anestins drawings focused on the denunciation of Stalin and the Soviet Union in a row with the name Măcelarul din Piata Roşie ( " The butchers of Red Square " ), published by the journal Gluma. During the onset of the Soviet occupation, Anestin has been hampered in its work by the censors period (1944-1949), before he was finally arrested. He died shortly after his release at the beginning of the 1960s.