Mișu Popp
Mișu Popp | |
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Born | |
Died | March 6, 1892 Brașov, Austria-Hungary | (aged 64)
Nationality | Romanian |
Alma mater | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
Known for | painting, mural |
Movement | Academism |
Signature | |
Mișu Popp (March 19, 1827 – March 6, 1892) was a painter and muralist from the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary.
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 are displayed in Bucharest at the Romanian Literature Museum and the National Art Museum, as well as in museums in Arad, Brașov, Ploiești, and Sibiu. A street in Râșnov bears his name.[1] He is buried in Brașov's Groaveri cemetery.[2]
Gallery
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Portrait of Ion Heliade Rădulescu
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Portrait of Michael the Brave
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Portrait of Andrei Mureșanu
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Portrait of the painter's father
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Portrait of Sevastia Panovici
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Lady in blue
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Italian peasant woman praying
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Portrait of the painter's mother
Notes
- ^ "Strada Mișu Popp". orasul.biz (in Romanian). Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ^ (in Romanian) Description of Groaveri Church at the Brașov archpriest’s district site
External links
- (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
- Romanian Austro-Hungarians
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- Artists from the Austrian Empire
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- Muralists
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
- Burials at Groaveri cemetery