Artişti români interbelici selectaţi din patrimoniul de artă târgumureşean
Romanian Interwar Artists Selected from the Art Heritage of Târgu-Mureş

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian interwar period was rather specific in terms of art. At the level of this period, there was a composite of stylistic options and depending on the nature of each artist, the assimilation and the filtering of style influences coming from the Western Europe, the approaches were different, too. But there are three main sources from which the interwar Romanian art is derived, namely the sentimentalism of Grigorescu, the new European trends and the appeal to the medieval-Byzantine tradition and folk with modern element insertions. Hence, the manifold and often singular ways of artistic expression: the antithetical tandem of Gh. Petraşcu and Theodor Pallady, „the Group of the Four” made up from Nicolae Tonitza, Ştefan Dimitrescu, Francisc Şirato and Oscar Han, the Balchik painters - the colorists with Impressionist shades: Nicolae Dărăscu, J. Al. Steriadi, Samuel Mützner, Lucian Grigorescu etc. and the vanguardists: Victor Brauner, Marcel Iancu, M. H. Maxy, Corneliu Michăilescu, Hans Mattis Teutsch etc., to cite just a few of the active exponents of this period and their course of expression. With this selection of artists and their works, owned by the Museum of Art of Târgu-Mureş, namely Gh. Petraşcu, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Ştefan Dimitrescu, Francisc Şirato and Oscar Han, the study aims to provide a brief insight into what the interwar period meant for the Romanian art.

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