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Elena Popea (15 April 1879, Brașov – 19 June 1941, Bucharest) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian Modernist painter whose influences included Impressionism, Expressionism and Cubism. Her favored subjects were landscapes, floral still-lifes and scenes of people at work or attending events.

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Biography

Her father was a secondary school teacher and her uncle was Bishop Nicolae Popea. Upon finishing her basic education, she studied philology in Leipzig and painting in Berlin. Later, she enrolled at the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein, an art school for women in Munich. After that, she spent some time at the artists' colony in Landsberg am Lech, where she took private lessons from Angelo Jank and Caroline Kempter [de].[1]

Her début came in 1905 at the "Expoziția națională", organized by the Asociația Transilvană pentru Literatura Română și Cultura Poporului Român (ASTRA), in Sibiu.[1] More exhibitions followed in Bucharest and Cluj.

During World War I, she lived in Paris, where she had showings at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume and the Salon des indépendants. While there, she continued her studies with Lucien Simon. In 1922, she returned to Paris to study with André Lhote at his new academy in Montparnasse.[1]

She generally spent her summers painting in the vicinity of Brașov or Cluj, and the rest of the year travelling; wandering as far afield as Scandinavia, Scotland, Spain and the Middle East, with each trip resulting in a new series of canvases.[1]

Selected paintings

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  Fair in Transylvania
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  Interior of Bran Castle
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  Woman with Goat
• 
  Boats

References

Further reading

• Maria Dumitrescu, Elena Popea, Editura Meridiane, 1969.
• Maria Chira and Gheorghe Mândrescu, Elena Popea: 1879-1941 : expozitįa retrospectivă (exhibition catalog) Cluj-Napoca Muzeul de Artă, 1975.
• Radu Popica, Pavel Șușarǎ, Iulia Mesea, Elena Popea, Editura Muzeului de Artă Brașov 2010, ISBN 978-606-92557-1-1 Online

External links

Media related to Elena Popea at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Elena Popea

Elena Popea (* 15. April 1879 in Kronstadt; † 1941 in Bukarest) war eine rumänische Malerin.

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- [en] Elena Popea

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[fr] Elena Popea

Elena Popea, née le 15 avril 1879 à Brașov en Autriche-Hongrie, et morte le 19 juin 1941 à Bucarest en Roumanie, est une artiste peintre roumaine.

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[it] Elena Popea

Elena Popea (Brașov, 15 aprile 1879 – Bucarest, 19 giugno 1941) è stata una pittrice rumena, esponente del modernismo.

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