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Apostol Mănciulescu (b.1887 - d.1962) was a Romanian artist who studied in Paris, thematically and stylistically influenced by French colonial painters in North Africa. Mănciulescu’s works carry with them the intricate, yet often invisible, cultural dynamics of Europe’s eastern periphery in the modern age. Admiration for colonial powers and exoticisation coexisted with a self-awareness of marginality and, at times, positive self-identification with the ‘Oriental’. This colonial orientation within interwar Romanian painting particularly is, however, rare, reflecting certain forgotten and under-explored histories of the local intellectual climate and its connections with global hierarchies. The works of Mănciulescu are held in both private and public collections, including the Museum of the Dacian and Roman Civilisation in Deva, Romania.
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Corneliu Michăilescu
Bucharest, Romania, 1887 - Bucharest, Romania, 1965
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