Gheorghe (George) Chirovici(Born 1883, Turnu Măgurele-Dec.1968, Bucharest) he was a Romanian painter, draftsman, watercolourist and fresco artist, best known for his religious works. Gheorghe Chirovici is the co-founder of the Romanian Artists Union, together with Leon Biju, Elena Alexandrina Bednarik, Ignat Bednarik, Adam Bălțatu, Lucian Grigorescu, Paul Molda and Gheorghe Simotta.

Life and studies: He was born in Craiova in 1883 and after a short apprenticeship with the Italian artists who worked on the painting of the church in Turnu Măgurele, he left for Bucharest to enroll in the School of Fine Arts. But he gave up after a few years, preferring to look for his own artistic path.

He exhibited for the first time around 1913, but only after the war did he really start his exhibition activity, with a long series of annual personal exhibitions and participations in Salons, during the third decade. Practicing a style of Gregorian descent, but addressing thematic areas not explored by the master (the religious spirituality of the Romanian peasant),Chirovici is a great success with the public of the time, quite traditionalist, among his loyal buyers being the sovereign pair of Romania.

There follows a period of artistic introspection, favored by travels in Europe (Yugoslavia, Italy, France) and resulting in a reconfiguration of the style that acquires a new force becoming more analytical, more sober.

Opera: The artist's paintings, one of the important representatives of poster art in Romania, are found especially in private collections. George Chirovici, a subtle watercolorist, is known (and) as the painter of the crucifixes, his art impressing with the accuracy of the drawing and temperate tones, an admirable chromatic spectacle in which the colors of sands, burned mermaids are dominant, in a perfect musical arrangement with velvety whites and pale yolks; a painting with which you become friends and in which you live, which, once ' read' , deciphered leisurely, you miss.

The broad theme, related to the life of the peasant, nature, Mediterranean landscapes or the picturesque urban, opens as many ' windows' to receive the message contained.

The painter's artistic activity also includes projects for arranging public spaces, theater and opera scenography, stamp models, banknotes and medals.

• 26 x 32 cm,
• acuarela / paper,
• signed.