Theodor Pallady
Theodor Pallady (Romanian pronunciation: [teˈodor paˈladi]; 11 April 1871 – 16 August 1956) was a Romanian painter.
Biography
Theodor Pallady was the son of Ioan Pallady and Maria Cantacuzino, the older sister of Romanian diplomat Neculai B. Cantacuzino. He was born in
In Paris, Pallady worked in the studio of
In 1900, he presented his work "The Prodigal Son", at the Exposition Universelle, which earned him high praise.[2]
In 1906 he married Jeanne Ghika-Brigadier.[4]
He opened a studio in Paris on Place Dauphine, where he worked until 1940, traveling often between France and Romania.[2]
In 1904, Pallady returned to Romania, where he held an exhibition at the Romanian Athenaeum. However, he maintained close connections with Paris, where he continued to hold many personal exhibitions, up until World War II.[5]
Pallady never lost the contact with Romania and had friends from the community of Romanian artists and intellectuals living in Paris, including
In 1940 he moved to Bucharest.[1] He died in Bucharest on 16 August 1956, and is buried in Bellu Cemetery.[2]
Legacy
The Melik House, situated in Bucharest houses The Theodor Pallady Museum, a branch of the National Museum of Art of Romania. Here are exposed his canvas paintings, as well as 800 of landscape sketches, portraits, and still life paintings, which are representative of his Paris period. The building, built in 1750 by Hagi Kevork Nazaretoglu, is the oldest house in Bucharest. In front of the museum's building stands a bronze statue of Theodor Pallady, created by the Romanian sculptor Gheorghe D. Anghel.[6] Other works of Pallady's are features of the National Museum's main collection, at Bucharest's Zambaccian Museum, the Palace of Culture in Iași, the Argeș County Museum in Pitești, the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, and the Craiova Art Museum in Craiova.
References
- ^ ISBN 9735881373.
- ^ a b c d "Theodor Pallady, pictorul uitat al Iașului". ziarullumina.ro. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- OCLC 741721824.
- OCLC 1108180328.
- .
- ^ "Muzeul Theodor Pallady - Bucuresti". www.ghidul.ro. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
External links
- Theodor Pallady on ArtFact.