Romanian Queer Artists Historical

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Queer artists born before 60'

Romania

Queer artists historical Romania
Andrei Cădere
Baruch Agadati
Brassaï
Cornel Brudașcu
George Tiutin
George Tomaziu
Lucia Ioan
Milița Petrașcu
Petre Sirin
Vasile Mureșan Murivale



  • Andrei Cădere (19..-20..)[1]
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  • Brassaï , originally named Gyula Halász (1899-20..)[4]
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    • Process: He was a versatile artist: an explorer of graffiti, images, words, sentences scratched and written on walls, and Parisian street folklore.
    • Bio: Born in Brașov, Romania, in 1899, was a photographer and film artist, painter, writer, and author of Conversations with Picasso. On his mother's side, he is a descendant of the Transylvanian Armenian noble Verzár family. After graduating from the Brasso High School of Realism (1917), he studied at the Budapest College of Fine Arts; interrupting his studies, in 1919 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and was taken prisoner of war. In 1919 he went to Berlin, and from there to Paris. In addition to photography, he was also successful as a visual artist and writer. He wrote a novel, illustrated Prévert's poems, did graphics, exhibited sculptures with Picasso, one of his films (As Long as There Are Animals) won an award at the Cannes Film Festival , and his book,. Conversations with Picasso, was published in 12 editions in French and in Hungarian, in 1968.[5]
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  • Cornel Brudașcu (b.1937)[6]
    • Artistic disciplines: painting.
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  • George Tomaziu (1915-1990)[8]
    • Artistic disciplines: painting, drawing.
    • Process: The artist is concerned with chromatic harmonies and optical sensations, rhythm and harmony. Worked on several self-portraits, landscapes and portraits, made in pencil, watercolour, and washes, with an evolution from realism to expressionism.
    • Bio: George Tomaziu was born on 4 April 1915, in Dorohoi, Romania. Between 1933 and 1936 he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, being a student of Francisc Șirato with whom he also defended his degree in 1937. He traveled to Dresden , Vienna and Munich and was André Lhote 's apprentice in Paris between 1938 and 1939. Before World War II , as well as during the war, he worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania . In the fall of 1942, he was admitted and assigned as a lieutenant of His British Majesty's Intelligence Service . He formed and organized a clandestine group of collaborators. He was arrested in June 1944, kept at Malmaison Prison in Bucharest, nowadays an artistic venue (Malmaison Ateliers). In 1950, George Tomaziu was arrested again on charges of espionage in favour of Great Britain and was sentenced by the Military Tribunal in Bucharest to 15 years of hard labour. His arrests were also determined by his sexual orientation. Upon his release in September 1963, he was forbidden to exhibit and to register with the Union of Visual Artists of Romania . In 1969, he left Romania and lived first in London and then in Paris. He opened exhibitions in Cologne , Paris and London. He died in Parin, on 3 December 1990, one year after the communist regime was thrown away in his birth-country, Romania.
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  • Milița Petrașcu (19..-20..)[10]
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  • Petre Sirin (1926-2003)[11]
    • Artistic disciplines: visual diary (collage, mixed-media).
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    • Bio: Petre Sirin studied at the "Matei Basarab" High School, then was admitted to the French Institute in Bucharest. His spiritual mentor was Roland Barthes , with whom he would form a great friendship. Between 1946 and 1951, he attended the Faculty of History, and was then assigned to a Bucharest school, where he worked as a teacher for three years. In 1952, he took the entrance exams at the "IL Caragiale" Institute of Theater and Cinematography and was admitted to the Film Directing department. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the "Al. Sahia" Studio, where he directed one or two short films per year and devoted the rest of his time to literary works. In 1979, he retired to Bran. Until his retirement (1986), he headed the Department of Theater and Cinematography at the Popular Art School in Brașov. He died on April 2, 2003, in Bran, alongside his long-time partner, Alexandru (Sasha) Lupescu.
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  • Vasile Mureșan Murivale (b.1957)[12]
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  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0MKMqnNk5GqXmJ47zL7bJVEffDP23zStDRMDc6ZXPiHrZEDAVhEay68QKjnK7aJnEl&id=100063311285264
  3. ↑ https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Agadati
  4. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FcrxH51u3/
  5. ↑ https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassa%C3%AF
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  7. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=814158447371191&set=a.323048246482216
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  9. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/100063311285264/posts/lucia-ioan-1934-1984-a-fost-o-artist%C4%83-lesbian%C4%83-pictori%C8%9B%C4%83-ilustratoare-grafician%C4%83/900921532028215/
  10. ↑ ref
  11. ↑ https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petre_Sirin
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