STEFAN LUCHIAN

Ștefan Luchian (January 6, 1868 - June 28, 1917), born in Ştefăneşti, a village of Botoşani County was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works. By the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, Stefan Luchian was the Romanian painter with the most remarkable creation. He was an inspired follower of Nicolae Grigorescu and Ion Andreescu, the two famous fathers of the Romanian painting. He did paint landscapes and portraits as much as he did paint compositions and still life, especially flowers. His landscapes equally show the interest in picturesque sights of nature for once and in the symbiosis between abundant vegetation and human appearances for another. In 1885, Luchian joined the painting class at the Fine Arts School, where he was encouraged to... pursue a career in art by Nicolae Grigorescu, whose work was to have a major impact on his entire creative life. Starting in autumn of 1889 Luchian studied for two semesters at the Munich Fine Arts Academy, where he created copies of the works by Correggio and Rembrandt housed in the Kunstareal. After his return to Romania, he took part in the first exhibition of the Cercul Artistic art group. In 1900, Luchian contributed two pastels to Romania's Pavilion at the World Fair, and in the same year suffered the first symptoms of multiple sclerosis, the disease which, after some initial improvements, was to haunt him for the rest of his life. He has been named the flowers’ painter as he created many work depicting flowers. He had begun flower paintings earlier, but from 1908 he concentrated all his creative energy into the subject. He was perhaps the finest of all the Romanian Impressionist artists. Famous paintings: Interior (Lorica), Luchian's last painting (1913), Anemona Flowers (1908), Poppies (1912), etc.

1.       Stefan Luchian’s mentor was:

a)       Ion Andreescu

b)       Theodor Pallady

c)       Nicolae Grigorescu

2.       Stefan Luchian was named:

a)       The flowers’ painter

b)       The landscapes’ painter

c)       The still nature’s painter

3.       His disease was:

a)       Alzheimer

b)       Multiple sclerosis

Lateral sclerosis

By Prof. Molcalut Georgeta - Florentina