Theodor Aman

Theodor Aman ( born March 20, 1831 in Câmpulung - Muscel † August 19, 1891 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter of genre painting and the historicism and wood engraver and one of the first and most famous artists in the country of Armenian origin. He is seen as an important precursor of Impressionism. His grandson, the Post-Impressionist Van Horaţiu Dimitriu was also a painter.

Biography

First, Aman learned as a student of Constantin Lecca and Carol Wallenstein at the art schools of Craiova and Bucharest, until he Michel Martin and François- Édouard Picot Drolling moved to Paris in 1850/51. In 1853 he exhibited for the first time at the Salon de Paris, before ( now Istanbul ) and then moved to what was then Constantinople Opel on the Crimean peninsula, where he gained impressions for its significant historical compositions whose themes very closely with the at this time distinguished Romanian National thoughts are connected. His most famous work "The Battle of Alma " was shown in 1855 at the World Exhibition in Paris.

When he returned then to his Wallachian home, he was knighted by the then Prince Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei, who granted him a scholarship to study in Paris. He visited among others the Barbizon School, whose style of painting landscapes and portraits his own style of painting had a great influence. After a short stay in Rome Aman came back to Wallachia, where he in 1863 on the side of Gheorghe Tattarescu the National Art Academy in Bucharest founded, which he headed until his death in 1891. It is located on the largest cemetery in Bucharest, the Cimitirul Bellu, buried.

Gallery

Tudor Vladimirescu ( 1874-76 )

Young Gypsy Girl (1884 )

Road in Câmpulung (1890)

Cerşător

Port Of Constanta

Fruit basket

First workshop of the painter in Paris