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Alexandru Ciucurencu    1903 - 1977

 
Born in Tulcea in 1903, Alexandru Ciucurencu began his artistic training in his hometown. It is headed by his drawing teacher Mr. Paraschiv that the future master has learned the basics of drawing.

After he left for Bucharest where he was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts between 1921 - 1928, painters and GD Mirea Camil Ressu, have helped to discover the art french, which will mark its own way and choice of subjects

Like most painters Romanians, Alexandru Ciucurencu for Paris and enrolled at the Academy Julian, working in his spare time in the workshop of Andre Lhote.

Alexandru Ciucurencu was a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest "Nicolae Grigorescu". During his long career he has received several awards: in 1930, he won the official Salon in 1955, he won the prestigious award of State in 1956, the price Ion Andreescu prize, awarded by the Academy.

He was rector of the Academy of Art and became a member of the Academy of Romania.
The artist died in Bucharest in 1977.

The vision of Ciucurencu is marked by nostalgia spaces mysterious Danube Delta, where he spent his childhood. Memories of the Paris period are also present: construction, rigueur.

He particularly admired the work and example of Stefan Luchian. He did landscapes, portraits cars-portraits, still static characterized by the simplicity of the lines. Fascinated by colors, Ciucurencu is a painter interested in the balance and simplicity.

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