Elena Popea - Artist Info

About Elena Popea

  • Biography

    Elena Popea (15 April 1879, Bra?ov – 19 June 1941, Bucharest) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian Modernist painter whose influences included Impressionism*, Expressionism* and Cubism*. Her favored subjects were landscapes, floral still-life and scenes of people at work or attending events.

    Her father was a secondary school teacher and her uncle was Bishop Nicolae Popea. Upon finishing her basic education, she studied philology in Leipzig and painting in Berlin. Later, she enrolled at the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein, an art school for women in Munich. After that, she spent some time at the artists' colony in Landsberg am Lech, where she took private lessons from Angelo Jank and Caroline Kempter.

    Her début came in 1905 at t...

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