THE MAN
Ion Popescu Negreni
(teh artist)
was born on January 2nd, 1907 in Negreni, Olt. Graduate of Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, in 1931, at the class of painting of professors Camil Ressu and Constantin Artachino. Between 1954 and 1972 he was professor at Institute of Fine Arts of Bucharest. He died on 28 November 2001.
Brothers and sisters::
- Neculai Popescu (clergyman)
- Victor Popescu (doctor)
- Ion Popescu Negreni (painter-the artist)
- Eugenia Popescu (teacher)
- Costica Popescu (officer)
- Filofteia Popescu (teacher)
- Domnica Popescu
- Veronica Popescu
- Tilica Popescu
Home addresses:
- Str. Arghezi nr.1 (fosta str.Snagov nr.7) - Bucharest;
- Piata Rosetti - Bucharest;
- 1970 - Str. Garibaldi nr.32 (Floreasca) - Bucharest;
- 1987 - Berceni (garsoniera);
- 1988 - Bd. Kogalniceanu nr. 60 (fost bd. Gh.Gh.Dej) - Bucharest.
Studious addresses:
- in his home - Bucharest;
- in his hose at Otopeni;
- Str. Mihail Kogalniceanu, nr.1, sc.1, et. 7 - Bucharest.
Personal exhibition in country:
-- 1955 - The hall "Nicolae Cristea", Bucharest;
- 1967 - The hall Dalles, Bucharest (76 works); Sinaia; Rm.Sarat; Tg.Mures; Cluj; Timisoara; Satu Mare; Piatra Neamt; Bacau;
- 1975 - Timisoara, Cluj;
- 1976 - The hall Dalles, Bucharest (122 works), Constanta (60 works), Slatina (59 works);
- 1984 - The hall Dalles, Bucharest;
- 1987 - National Museum of Art, Bucharest (127 works);
- 1988 - Giurgiu (65 works),Birlad (49 works), Galati (60 works);
- 1992 - "Central Art Galleries", Braila;
- 1993 - "Art galleries" National Military Circle, Bucharest (76 works);
- 1996 - "Art galleries Louis Calderon" - Bucharest (52 works);
- 1998 - "Art galleries" ale National Military Circle, Bucharest.
Personal exhibition abroad:
- 1967 - Newton (France);
- 1978 - Kanndy (Sri Lanka);
- 1992 - Tel Aviv (Israel).
Group exhibitions:
- 1937 - Autumn Salon, Bucharest;
- 1942 - Galati;
- 1948 - Exhibition "Flacara", Bucharest;
- 1953-1989 - State annual exhibition, Bucharest;
- 1957 - Exhibition "10 years of plastic creation", Bucharest;
- 1959 - Bucharest;
- 1960 - The factory "Republica", Bucharest;
- 1965 - Mogosoaia;
- 1971 - Bucharest;
- 1972 - Exhibition "New Romanian landscape", Bucharest;
- 1973, 1974, 1987, 1991, 1996 - Bucharest..
Romanian abroad exhibitions:
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- 1958 - Moscow;
- 1968 - Prague, Menton;
- 1969 - Tel Aviv, Scopje, L?denscheid, Beirut;
- 1971 - Baghdad;
- 1973 - Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Cuiaba, Montevideo, Beijing, Tientsin, Phenian;
- 1974 - Caracas, Santiago de Chile, Beirut;
- 1975 - Baghdad;
- 1978 - Kandy (Sri Lanka).
Prizes:
- 1968 - "Meritul cultural" 2nd class;
- 1979 - prize for painting of Fine Artists Union;
- 1987 - The big prize of Fine Artists Union;
- 1992 - Romanian Academy prize;
- 2000 - The BIG CROSS .
Study trips:
Bulgaria, France, Italy, Cechioslavacia, Russia, Spain.
Works in museums and private collections:
Romania, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Israel, S.U.A., Brazil, Switzerland.
Bibliography:
MACIUCA Balcica - Ion Popescu-Negreni, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1976;
BARBOSA Octavian - The Romanian Contemporary Artists Dictionary, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1976;
PRUT Constantin - Modern Art Dictionary, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1982;
FLOREA Vasile - Modern and Contemporary Romanian Art, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1982;
BOTEZ-CRAINIC Adriana - Ion Popescu Negreni, Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1989;
FLOREA Vasile - The Enciclopedy of Romanian Contemporary Artists, ARC 2000 Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996.
Critics who wrote about artist:
IONESCU Radu, MACIUCA Balcica, VLASIU Ion, HAGIU Grigore, DEAC Mircea, PREUTU Mariana,
GRIGORESCU Dan, PRUT Constantin, CRISTIAN Dan, OPREA Viorel, GRIGORE Vasile, MOCANU Virgil,
CROITORU Mircea, OCTAVIAN Tudor, LAZAR Eugen Radu, CEBUC Alexandru, ANGELESCU Cristina,
CONSTANTINESCU Corenl Radu, TRUTA Nicolae, ANTIM Corneliu, GUTA Adrian,
CRISTEA Mihaela, REDLOW Theodor, TITU Alexandra, MARINESCU Veronica etc.
