Portrait of an unknown seaman · 1460
Romanticism Artist
Theodor Aman
Romanian·1831–1891
8 paintings in our database
Aman founded modern Romanian art education and produced the first generation of properly academic Romanian historical and genre painting.
Biography
Theodor Aman (1831–1891) was a Romanian painter, engraver, and educator who founded the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1864 and is considered the founder of modern Romanian art education. Trained in Paris, Aman produced ambitious history paintings on Romanian medieval and early modern subjects, intimate genre scenes of Bucharest bourgeois life, and self-portraits in the academic French manner.
Artistic Style
Aman painted in a polished academic manner with firm drawing, sober palettes, and careful attention to historical costume. His genre scenes show the influence of Meissonier in their precise observation of bourgeois interior detail.
Historical Significance
Aman founded modern Romanian art education and produced the first generation of properly academic Romanian historical and genre painting.
Paintings (8)
Artist Studio in Paris
Theodor Aman·
The Battle With Torches
Theodor Aman·1866
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Portrait of Tudor Vladimirescu.
Theodor Aman·1874
Portrait of Mrs. Fălcoianu
Theodor Aman·1870
Professor George Capșa at the age of 8
Theodor Aman·1869
Barbu Catargiu
Theodor Aman·1862
Portrait of Maria Davila
Theodor Aman·1864
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Theodor Aman·1862
Contemporaries
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