Dragoș Morărescu was born in Bucharest in 1923 and passed away in 2005. Trained as a both painter and an architect, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts between 1944 and 1947 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in 1949. His artistic education also included courses in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanian art history under Professor I. D. Ștefănescu. Morărescu worked across a wide range of media including tempera, gouache, pastel, metal sculpture, printmaking and fresco, developing a distinctive synthesis between the fine and decorative arts.

He made his debut in 1943 at the Official Salon of Decorative Arts held at the Romanian Athenaeum, where he received First Mention. His oeuvre evolved in thematic cycles such as Autochthonous Mythologies, Metamorphosis of Forms, Figures of Romanian Spirituality, and Bucharest – Aspects of Yesterday and Today. These series reveal an artist deeply engaged with transformation of cultural symbols into a contemporary visual language. Morărescu’s sustained interest in the human figure, frequently noted in his own writings, reflects a pursuit of psychological depth rather than mere formal likeness.

Although his name remains relatively obscure within the mainstream narratives of Romanian art history, Morărescu’s versatility and intellectual formation placed him among those post-war artists who sought to reconcile tradition, architecture, and the plastic arts into a coherent and modern aesthetic discourse.