Dimitrie Paciurea was a Romania

Romania

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n sculptor

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

. His representational and symbolic style contrasts strongly to the more abstract style of his contemporary and co-national Constantin Brâncuşi

Constantin Brancusi

Constantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...

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Born in Bucharest

Bucharest

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, he studied in Bucharest (1890-1894) and Paris

Paris

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 (1896-1900). Paciurea was one of the founders of the Romanian Art Society (1919). A room of the Romanian National Art Museum is devoted largely to his Chimera sculptures.

Birthdate

Some ambiguity regarding Dimitrie's birth-year exists.

• Oscar Han, Sculptorul Dimitrie Paciurea, Bucharest, 1935, p.7, gives Paciurea's birth year as 1875.
• George Oprescu, Sculptura Romaneasca, Bucharest, 1965, p. 93, lists 1875
• Ion Frunzetti, Paciurea, Bucharest, 1971, p. 12, date of birth as November 2, 1873.
• Mircea Deac, Paciurea, Bucharest, 2000, p.5, date of birth as November 2, 1873.

External links

• ici.ro website
• Highbeam research paper