Mișu Popp
Mișu Popp | |
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 Mișu Popp – Self Portrait | |
| Born | March 19, 1827 |
| Died | March 6, 1892 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Alma mater | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| Known for | painting, mural |
| Movement | Academism |
Mișu Popp (March 19, 1827 – March 6, 1892) was a Romanian painter and muralist.
Biography[]
Born in Brașov, in the Principality of Transylvania, he was the eighth child of Ioan Popp Moldovan de Galați (1774–1869) and Elena (1783–1867), born Ivan, a family from the Făgăraș region. His father was a church muralist, painter and sculptor.
Popp finished his art studies in 1848, at the Academy of Fine Arts from Vienna, where he developed a serious academic style.
He carried on the work of his father by painting several churches from Bucharest, Brașov (Tocile, Saint Nicholas Church), Araci, Râșnov, Satulung, Târgu-Jiu, Câmpulung, Urlați, etc. Between 1847 and 1853 he painted with Constantin Lecca the church of Curtea Veche from Bucharest.
But his main art legacy resides in creating many portraits of the personalities of his time (Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Andrei Mureșanu, Vasile Alecsandri, etc.) and of some famous historical figures, such as Michael the Brave, inspired from a contemporary engraving of the voivode.
His paintings can be admired in Bucharest at the Romanian Literature Museum and the National Art Museum, as well as in museums in Arad, Brașov, Ploiești, and Sibiu.
Gallery[]
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Portrait of Ion Heliade Rădulescu
Portrait of Michael the Brave
Portrait of Andrei Mureșanu
Portrait of the painter's father
Portrait of Sevastia Panovici
Lady in blue
Italian peasant woman praying
Portrait of the painter's mother
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mișu Popp. |
- (in English) Art Museum from Brașov – Mișu Popp
- (in Romanian) Compendium – Mișu Popp
- (in English) Art gallery – Mișu Popp
- (in Romanian) Famous people from Brașov – Mișu Popp
- (in Romanian) Elena Popescu – The portraits of Mișu Popp in the art collection of Brukental Art Museum from Sibiu
- (in Romanian) Exhibition "Princes of the Romanian Principalities"
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- 1827 births
- 1892 deaths
- People from Brașov
- Romanians in Hungary
- Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church
- 19th-century Romanian people
- 19th-century Romanian painters
- Romanian muralists
- Romanian academics
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni