Nicolae Darascu - Artist Info

About Nicolae Darascu

  • Biography

    Born in Giurgiu, Nicolae Darascu studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1902 and 1906 in the class of George Demetrescu Mirea.

    After graduation, he was awarded a scholarship to the Académie Julian in Paris, which, as an admirer of its former students Nicolae Grigorescu and Stefan Luchian, he had wanted to attend. He studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and a year later, in 1907 was at the École des Beaux-Arts under Luc-Olivier Merson.

    He traveled extensively and lived in the south of France at Toulon and Saint-Tropez, 1908) and also traveled to Venice (1909), to Romania (to Vlaici, Olt County, 1913, and to Southern Dobruja - Balchik, 1919).

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