Ștefan Luchian

Ştefan Luchian ( born 1 February 1868 in Ştefăneşti, † June 27, 1916 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter.

The son of Major Dumitru Luchian came with his family in 1873 to Bucharest. Here he attended from 1879 high school and 1885 the scoala de belle arte. At the same time he began to study music at the conservatory of the city. From 1889 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Johann Caspar Herterich. From 1891 to 1893 he lived in Paris, where he was at the Academie Julian student of William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert -Fleury.

Luchians first known picture, a small oil painting, from the year 1884. A first exhibition of his paintings took place in 1890 in Bucharest Cercul artistic. After his return from Paris he participated again with several paintings at an exhibition of artistic Cercul. The following year he was a member of the jury of the Expoziţia anuală a artiştilor în Viata ( "Annual Exhibition of Living Artists") who for fourteen years was held for the first time again and in which he was represented by eight own paintings. He also organized in a studio in Bucharest joint exhibitions with Titus Alexandrescu (1894 ) and Constantin Artachino (1895 ).

In 1897 he signed together with Artachino and C. Pascali a contract for the decoration of the Cathedral of Alexandria, together with Artachino another contract for the decoration of the Cathedral of Tulcea. Beginning of 1898 he was involved in the opening exhibition of the artist Ileana company with 21 paintings. Between May and September of that year, he realized the painting of the Cathedral of Alexandria.

End of the year Luchian fell seriously ill, it was the first outbreak of a spinal cord infection that ultimately led to his early death. In May and June 1899 he painted from the Cathedral of Tulcea. In the same year he participated again at the Expoziţia anuală a artiştilor în Viata. Two of his works were for the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris selected and shown in the exposure Décennale des Beaux Arts.

1900, the first issue of Revista literara şi Artistica " Ileana ", was responsible for the artistic part Luchian. In 1901 he completed the painting of the Brezoianu Church in Bucharest. In May of that year he took part for the first time with eleven works on a painting and sculpture exhibition in Bucharest Ateneu. He was seriously ill and admitted paralyzed in the Pantelimon Hospital in Bucharest the end of 1901, he could only leave with March of the following year.

1903 belonged Luchian to the participants of the international art exhibition in Athens, in the following year he had two personal exhibitions in Ateneu. 1905 was shown in the permanent collection of the Hamburger Kunstverein his painting Crizanteme. He regularly was Artistica at the exhibitions of the Tinerimea ( " Artistic Youth" ) represented. More personal exhibitions in Ateneu took place in 1907, 1908, 1910 and 1914.

1909 Luchian was awarded the Bene Medalia Merenti First Class. At the opening of the Simu Museum in 1910 twelve of his works were shown. In 1911, his health had deteriorated so much that he was taken to the Dr.- Margaritarescu sanatorium. Around 1913 he created his last works. Rumors that he let someone paint under his name have earned him an indictment for fraud.

His life was the subject of the film Luchian, the director Nicolae Margineanu turned with Ion Caramitru in the lead role in 1981.

Works

• Un convoi la Plevna, 1892
• La Malul Marii, 1892
• La Auteuil, 1892
• Ultima Cursa de toamna, 1892
• Efect de Luna
• Mănăstirea Tismana, 1895
• Safta Florăreasa, 1901
• Soldier atacînd, 1901
• Portocale şi Garoafe, 1905
• Vas cu Trandafiri, 1906
• Spălătoreasa, 1906-07
• Anemone, 1908
• De la Bariera Filantropiei
• Crizanteme
• Lica cu Portocala, 1912
• Interior