Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck

Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck; photograph by her husband Frederic Storck.
Portrait sculpture of her husband, Frederic. (1909) From the "Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum"

Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck (born 14 March 1879, Câineni, Vâlcea – d. 1969, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter with a strong influence on cultural life in the interwar period.

Biography

Cecilia Cuțescu was born in the village Râul Vadului, in the Câineni commune. She was adopted by her maternal grandparents, from which she has the name Cuțescu. She remained however very close to her parents, Natalia and Ion Brăneanu, and her sisters, Fulvia – who died in her teen years – and Ortansa – who became an important feminist activist in Romania.

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In memoriam

In June 2010, from the initiative of the rector of the Economic Studies Academy of Bucharest, Gheorghe Roșca, and of the mayor of Câineni, Ion Nicolae, a commemorative plaque was placed in the village Râul Vadului.[2]

The Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum is a modern art museum located in Bucharest, Romania, dedicated to the painter and her husband.

Notes

  1. ↑ O listă completă se află în monograful Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck de Marin Mihalache (Editura Meridiane, București, 1969)
  2. ↑ Pictorița Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck, comemorată la Câineni

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