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'''Ştefan Luchian''' (], ]&ndash;], ]) was a ]n painter, famous for his ] and ] works. '''Ștefan Luchian''' ({{IPA|ro|ʃteˈfan lukiˈan}}, last name also spelled '''Lukian'''; 1 February 1868 – 28 June 1916) was a ]n painter, famous for his ] and ] works.


==Biography== ==Biography==
===Early life=== ===Early life===
He was born in ], a village of ], as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. The Luchian family moved to ] in 1873 and his mother wanted to follow his father's path and join the Military School, but instead chose to join in 1885 the painting class at the Fine Arts School in Bucharest, where he was encouraged to pursue a career in painting by ], whose work was to have a major impact on his entire creation.<ref>Drăguţ ''et al.'', p.174</ref> Luchian was born in ], a village of ], as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. In 1873, the Luchian family moved to ], where he attended the ].<ref name="Istoric">{{cite web|url=https://www.cncv.ro/istoric/|title=Istoric|lang=ro|publisher=]|access-date=August 23, 2024}}</ref> His mother desired that he would follow his father's path and join the Military School; instead, in 1885, Luchian joined the painting class at the ], where he was encouraged to pursue a career in art by ], whose work was to have a major effect on his entire creative life.<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', p. 174</ref>


Starting autumn 1889 Luchian studied for two semesters at the ] ], where he created copies of the works by ] and ] housed in the ]. After his return to Romania, he took part in the first exhibition of the ''Cercul Artistic'' art group. Starting in autumn of 1889 Luchian studied for two semesters at the ] ], where he created copies of the works by ] and ] housed in the ]. After his return to Romania, he took part in the first exhibition of the ''Cercul Artistic'' art group.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}


He showed himself unable to accept the ] guidelines imposed by the ]n and Romanian schools.<ref>Drăguţ ''et al.'', p.173</ref> The following year, he left for ], where he studied at the ], and, although taught by the academic artist ], became acquainted with ] works of art.<ref>Drăguţ ''et al.'', p.173-174, 179</ref> Luchian's painting ''Ultima cursă de toamnă'' shows the influence of ] and ], but also echoes of the ], ], and ] (also obvious in works created after his return to Bucharest).<ref>Drăguţ ''et al.'', p.174, 179</ref> He showed himself unable to accept the ] guidelines imposed by the ]n and Romanian schools.<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', p. 173</ref> The following year, he left for ], where he studied at the ], and, although taught by the academic artist ], became acquainted with ] works of art.<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', pp. 173–174, 179</ref> Luchian's painting ''Ultima cursă de toamnă'' shows the influence of ] and ], but also echoes of the ], ], and ] (also obvious in works created after his return to Bucharest).<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', pp. 168, 174, 179</ref>


===Chronic illness and death=== ===Chronic illness and death===
In 1896, together with ], ], and the art collector, ], Luchian was one of the main founders of Bucharest's ''Salonul Independenților'', which was opened in front of the official ''Salon'' (the Romanian equivalent of the ]).<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', pp. 167–168; Ionescu</ref> Two years later, the group led to the creation of ''Societatea Ileana'' and its press organ, ''Ileana'',<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', p. 168; Ionescu</ref> with Luchian as the original illustrator.<ref>Ionescu</ref> From then on Luchian began integrating ] elements in his work, taking inspiration from various related trends: ], ], and '']'' (''see ]'').<ref>Drăguț ''et al.'', p. 168</ref>
⚫ In 1896, he was the main founder of the ''Independent artists' exhibition'' of Bucharest, which was opened in front of the official ''Salon'' (the Romanian equivalent of the ]). In 1900, Luchian contributed two ]s to Romania's ] at the ], and in the same year suffered the first symptoms of ], the disease which, after some initial improvements, was to haunt him for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, he continued painting and, until 1915, had his works displayed in numerous exhibitions, albeit to a largely indifferent public.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.620-621</ref> At his 1905 exhibition, the only buyer of a painting was his former teacher Grigorescu. Despite being appreciated by a select few (including the writer ]),<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.621</ref> Luchian lived in poverty (the large fortune he had inherited was progressively drained).<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.622-623</ref>


⚫ In 1900, Luchian contributed two ]s to Romania's ] at the ], and in the same year experiencing the first symptoms of ]. After some initial improvements, this illness was lifelong. Nonetheless, he continued painting and, until 1915, had his works displayed in numerous exhibitions, albeit to a largely indifferent public.<ref name="Arghezi, p.620-621">Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', pp. 620–621</ref> At his 1905 exhibition, the only buyer of a painting was his former teacher Grigorescu. Despite being appreciated by a select few (including the writer ]),<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p. 621</ref> Luchian lived in poverty (the large fortune he had inherited was progressively drained).<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', pp. 622–623</ref>
⚫ ]
⚫ ] from 1909, he had to live the rest of his life in an armchair.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.617</ref> This did not prevent him from working on an entire series of landscapes and flowers. He had begun flower paintings earlier, but from 1908 he concentrated all his creative energy into the subject. Toward the end of his life, Luchian was no longer able to hold the painter's brush with his fingers, and was instead helped to tie it to his wrist in order to continue work.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.618-621; Drăguţ ''et al.'', p.175</ref>


⚫ ]
⚫ At the time, he had begun enjoying considerable success &mdash; a phenomenon which the writer ] attributed to the momentary rise of ] as a politician (Ionescu had become the center of a fashion and subject of imitation, and he was among the first two buy more than one of Luchian's paintings).<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.616</ref> As his disease became notorious, a rumor spread that Luchian allowed someone else to paint in his name; the scandal caused brought Luchian's arrest under charges ] (he was released soon after).<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.617, 620-621</ref> Arghezi took pride in being one of his few defenders.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.620-621</ref>
⚫ ] from 1909, he had to live the rest of his life in an armchair.<ref name="Arghezi, p.617">Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p. 617</ref> This did not prevent him from working on an entire series of landscapes and flowers. He had begun flower paintings earlier, but from 1908 he concentrated all his creative energy into the subject. Toward the end of his life, Luchian was no longer able to hold the painter's brush with his fingers, and was instead helped to tie it to his wrist in order to continue work.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', pp. 618–621; Drăguţ ''et al.'', p. 175</ref>


⚫ At the time, he had begun enjoying considerable success – a phenomenon which the writer ] attributed to the momentary rise of ] as a politician (Ionescu had become the center of a fashion and subject of imitation, and he was among the first to buy more than one of Luchian's paintings).<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', pp. 617–618</ref> As his disease became notorious, a rumor spread that Luchian allowed someone else to paint in his name; the scandal brought about Luchian's arrest under charges of ] (he was released soon after).<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', pp. 617, 620–621</ref> Arghezi took pride in being one of his few defenders.<ref name="Arghezi, p.620-621"/>
⚫ One of the last events in Luchian's life was a visit payed to his house by composer and violinist ]; although the two had not met before, Enescu played his instrument as a personal tribute to the dying artist.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.623</ref>


⚫ One of the last events in Luchian's life was a visit paid to his house by composer and violinist ]. Although the two had never met before, Enescu played his instrument as a personal tribute to the dying artist.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p. 623</ref>
He died in ] and he was buried at the ].

] (second from left)]]
He died in ] and was buried at the city's ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ziarullumina.ro/actualitate-religioasa/an-omagial/la-mormantul-lui-mihai-eminescu-159871.html|title=La mormântul lui Mihai Eminescu|newspaper=Ziarul Lumina|language=ro|first=Tudor Călin| last=Zarojanu|date=January 15, 2021|access-date=February 20, 2022}}</ref>


==Legacy== ==Legacy==
By the 1930s, Luchian's impact on ] was becoming the subject of disputes in the cultural world, with several critics claiming that his work had been minor and the details of his life exaggerated.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.616-617</ref> Arghezi was again involved in the polemic, and wrote passionate pieces which supported Luchian's art and attributed adverse reactions to jealousy and to Luchian's voiced distaste for mediocrity.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', p.617</ref> By the 1930s, Luchian's impact on ] was becoming the subject of disputes in the cultural world, with several critics claiming that his work had been minor and the details of his life exaggerated.<ref>Arghezi, ''Din zilele lui Luchian'', in ''Scrieri'', pp. 616–617</ref> Arghezi was again involved in the polemic, and wrote passionate pieces which supported Luchian's art and attributed adverse reactions to jealousy and to Luchian's voiced distaste for mediocrity.<ref name="Arghezi, p.617"/>

⚫ In 1948, Luchian was posthumously elected to the ]. An art school in ] bears his name.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}


⚫ His life was the subject of ]'s ], {{ill|Ștefan Luchian (film)|lt=Ștefan Luchian|ro|Ștefan Luchian (film)}},<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137219/fullcredits|title=Stefan Luchian|date=1 January 2000|publisher=|via=IMDb}}</ref> where his character was played by ] (] was Luchian's sister; other actors starring in the film where ], {{ill|Ștefan Velniciuc|ro}}, ] as Arghezi, and ] as ]).{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
⚫ In 1948, Luchian was posthumously elected to the ]. An art school in ] bears his name.


==Gallery==
⚫ His life was the subject of ]'s ], '''', where his character was played by ] (] was Luchian's sister; other actors starring in the film where ], ], ] as Arghezi, and ] as ]).


<gallery> <gallery>
Image:Ştefan Luchian - Safta Florăreasa, 1901.jpg|''Safta the Flower Girl'', 1901 File:Stefan Luchian - Safta Florareasa (1895).jpg|''Safta the Flower Girl'', 1895
Image:Stefan Luchian portrait of a woman.jpg|''Portrait of a Woman'' 1901 Image:Stefan Luchian portrait of a woman.jpg|''Portrait of a Woman'' 1901
Image:Stefan Luchian The Well on Clucerului Street.jpg|''The Well on Clucerului Street'' 1902-1904 Image:Stefan Luchian The Well on Clucerului Street.jpg|''The Well on Clucerului Street'' 1902-1904
Image:Stefan Luchian - Mos Nicolae cobzarul.jpg|''Old Man Nicolae the Fiddler'', 1906 Image:Stefan Luchian - Mos Nicolae cobzarul.jpg|''Old Man Nicolae the Fiddler'', 1906
Image:Luchian - Lunca de la Poduri.jpg|''The River Meadow at Poduri'', 1909 Image:Stefan Luchian - Lunca de la Poduri.jpg|''The River Meadow at Poduri'', 1909
Image:Luchian - Anemone.jpg|''Anemona Flowers'', 1908 Image:Luchian - Anemone.jpg|''Anemona Flowers'', 1908
Image:Stefan Luchian - Lautul.jpg|''Hair Washing'', 1911-1912 Image:Stefan Luchian - Lautul.jpg|''Hair Washing'', 1911-1912
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Image:Stefan Luchian - Rosior.jpg|''The Mounted Red Hussar'' Image:Stefan Luchian - Rosior.jpg|''The Mounted Red Hussar''
Image:Luchian - Dumitrite.jpg|''Chrysanthemums'' Image:Luchian - Dumitrite.jpg|''Chrysanthemums''
Image:Ştefan Luchian - Bragagiul.jpg|''The Millet Beer Seller'' Image:Ștefan Luchian - Bragagiul.jpg|''The Millet Beer Seller''
Image:Ştefan Luchian - Spălătoreasa.jpg|''The Laundress'' Image:Ștefan Luchian - Spălătoreasa.jpg|''The Laundress''
File:3 paintings by Ștefan Luchian in the Zambaccian Museum.jpg|Three paintings by Luchian in the ]
</gallery> </gallery>


==Notes== ==Notes==
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==References== ==References==
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*], ''Scrieri. Proze'', Minerva, Bucharest, 1985 *], ''Scrieri. Proze'', ], Bucharest, 1985
*Vasile Drăguţ, Vasile Florea, ], Marin Mihalache, ''Pictura românească în imagini'', Meridiane, Bucharest, 1970 *Vasile Drăguț, Vasile Florea, {{ill|Dan Grigorescu|ro}}, Marin Mihalache, ''Pictura românească în imagini'', Editura Meridiane, Bucharest, 1970
*{{in lang|ro}} Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, , in '']''; retrieved 14 July 2007


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Romanian painter (1868–1916)

Ștefan Luchian
A Housepainter (self-portrait), 1909
Born(1868-02-01)1 February 1868
Ștefănești, Botoșani County, Romania
Died28 June 1916(1916-06-28) (aged 48)
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Resting placeBellu Cemetery, Bucharest
NationalityRomanian
EducationWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau
Nicolae Grigorescu
Alma materNational School of Fine Arts
Known forPainting, and modernism
MovementImpressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism
Patron(s)Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
Take Ionescu
Anemona Flowers (1911–1913)

Ștefan Luchian (Romanian pronunciation: [ʃteˈfan lukiˈan], last name also spelled Lukian; 1 February 1868 – 28 June 1916) was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.

Biography

Early life

Luchian was born in Ștefănești, a village of Botoșani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. In 1873, the Luchian family moved to Bucharest, where he attended the Cantemir High School. His mother desired that he would follow his father's path and join the Military School; instead, 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 effect 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.

He showed himself unable to accept the academic guidelines imposed by the Bavarian and Romanian schools. The following year, he left for Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian, and, although taught by the academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, became acquainted with Impressionist works of art. Luchian's painting Ultima cursă de toamnă shows the influence of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, but also echoes of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, Modernism, and Post-Impressionism (also obvious in works created after his return to Bucharest).

Chronic illness and death

In 1896, together with Nicolae Vermont, Constantin Artachino, and the art collector, Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești, Luchian was one of the main founders of Bucharest's Salonul Independenților, which was opened in front of the official Salon (the Romanian equivalent of the Paris Salon). Two years later, the group led to the creation of Societatea Ileana and its press organ, Ileana, with Luchian as the original illustrator. From then on Luchian began integrating Symbolist elements in his work, taking inspiration from various related trends: Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, and Mir iskusstva (see Symbolist movement in Romania).

In 1900, Luchian contributed two pastels to Romania's Pavilion at the World Fair, and in the same year experiencing the first symptoms of multiple sclerosis. After some initial improvements, this illness was lifelong. Nonetheless, he continued painting and, until 1915, had his works displayed in numerous exhibitions, albeit to a largely indifferent public. At his 1905 exhibition, the only buyer of a painting was his former teacher Grigorescu. Despite being appreciated by a select few (including the writer Ion Luca Caragiale), Luchian lived in poverty (the large fortune he had inherited was progressively drained).

Interior (Lorica), Luchian's last painting (1913)

Paralysed from 1909, he had to live the rest of his life in an armchair. This did not prevent him from working on an entire series of landscapes and flowers. He had begun flower paintings earlier, but from 1908 he concentrated all his creative energy into the subject. Toward the end of his life, Luchian was no longer able to hold the painter's brush with his fingers, and was instead helped to tie it to his wrist in order to continue work.

At the time, he had begun enjoying considerable success – a phenomenon which the writer Tudor Arghezi attributed to the momentary rise of Take Ionescu as a politician (Ionescu had become the center of a fashion and subject of imitation, and he was among the first to buy more than one of Luchian's paintings). As his disease became notorious, a rumor spread that Luchian allowed someone else to paint in his name; the scandal brought about Luchian's arrest under charges of fraud (he was released soon after). Arghezi took pride in being one of his few defenders.

One of the last events in Luchian's life was a visit paid to his house by composer and violinist George Enescu. Although the two had never met before, Enescu played his instrument as a personal tribute to the dying artist.

Grave of Ștefan Luchian at Bellu Cemetery (second from left)

He died in Bucharest and was buried at the city's Bellu Cemetery.

Legacy

By the 1930s, Luchian's impact on Romanian art was becoming the subject of disputes in the cultural world, with several critics claiming that his work had been minor and the details of his life exaggerated. Arghezi was again involved in the polemic, and wrote passionate pieces which supported Luchian's art and attributed adverse reactions to jealousy and to Luchian's voiced distaste for mediocrity.

In 1948, Luchian was posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy. An art school in Botoșani bears his name.

His life was the subject of Nicolae Mărgineanu's 1981 film, Ștefan Luchian [ro], where his character was played by Ion Caramitru (Maria Ploae was Luchian's sister; other actors starring in the film where George Constantin, Ștefan Velniciuc [ro], Florin Călinescu as Arghezi, and Adrian Pintea as Nicolae Tonitza).

Gallery

  • Safta the Flower Girl, 1895 Safta the Flower Girl, 1895
  • Portrait of a Woman 1901 Portrait of a Woman 1901
  • The Well on Clucerului Street 1902-1904 The Well on Clucerului Street 1902-1904
  • Old Man Nicolae the Fiddler, 1906 Old Man Nicolae the Fiddler, 1906
  • The River Meadow at Poduri, 1909 The River Meadow at Poduri, 1909
  • Anemona Flowers, 1908 Anemona Flowers, 1908
  • Hair Washing, 1911-1912 Hair Washing, 1911-1912
  • Alecu the Literary Man Alecu the Literary Man
  • The Mounted Red Hussar The Mounted Red Hussar
  • Chrysanthemums Chrysanthemums
  • The Millet Beer Seller The Millet Beer Seller
  • The Laundress The Laundress
  • Three paintings by Luchian in the Zambaccian Museum Three paintings by Luchian in the Zambaccian Museum

Notes

  1. "Istoric" (in Romanian). Cantemir Vodă National College. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  2. Drăguț et al., p. 174
  3. Drăguț et al., p. 173
  4. Drăguț et al., pp. 173–174, 179
  5. Drăguț et al., pp. 168, 174, 179
  6. Drăguț et al., pp. 167–168; Ionescu
  7. Drăguț et al., p. 168; Ionescu
  8. Ionescu
  9. Drăguț et al., p. 168
  10. ^ Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, pp. 620–621
  11. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, p. 621
  12. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, pp. 622–623
  13. ^ Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, p. 617
  14. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, pp. 618–621; Drăguţ et al., p. 175
  15. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, pp. 617–618
  16. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, pp. 617, 620–621
  17. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, p. 623
  18. Zarojanu, Tudor Călin (15 January 2021). "La mormântul lui Mihai Eminescu". Ziarul Lumina (in Romanian). Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  19. Arghezi, Din zilele lui Luchian, in Scrieri, pp. 616–617
  20. "Stefan Luchian". 1 January 2000 – via IMDb.

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