Geta Gheorghita-Caragiu - Artist Info

About Geta Gheorghita-Caragiu

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Geta Caragiu
  • Biography

    Born in 1929, in an old family of Aromanians, Geta Caragiu Gheorghi?a is the younger sister of the actor Toma Caragiu, who passed away tragically 40 years ago in the earthquake of March 1977 and of Matilda Caragiu–Mario?eanu (1927-2009), prominent academician and philologist, exceptional personalities who left their unmistakable mark on the culture of their country.

    She was a professor at the „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute for Visual Arts of Bucharest, sculpture department, counting among her students Aurel Vlad, Adrian Ioni?a, Ion Mândrescu, Gheorghe Zarnescu, Liviu Brezeanu etc.

    She is the creator of numerous public sculptures, citing among others The Equestrian Statue of Mihai the Brave from Oradea, placed in 1994 in...

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