He was born on January 18 in Huși. Orphaned, he attended the Anastasie Pann Classical High School in Huși (1897).

He obtained a scholarship and enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Iasi (1903-1908), in the class of the painter Emanoil Bardasare. He paints churches in Agăș, Asau and Gherghița (1908-1911).

He was appointed a drawing teacher at the Alexandru Ghica high school in Alexandria (1912-1920).

He goes to France, to Paris, and enrolls at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, after which he rents his own studio in Montmartre (1912-1913). He returned to the country in 1913.

He made his artistic debut with the organization of the exhibition in the "C" hall in Bucharest, together with the painter N.N. Tonic. He participated in the Official Salon (1916), becoming a frequent exhibitor of this salon.

He is mobilized at the Army Headquarters, in the team of painters, and will exhibit with them, in Iași, in 1916. He has a new exhibition with the painter Tonitza in Bucharest (1920).

He founded with the painters Br. Sirato, N.N. Tonitza and with the sculptor Oscar Han the Group of Four, which will acquire a remarkable artistic performance (between 1926-1933).

Ștefan Dimitrescu is a follower of traditional realist and post-impressionist painting. His assertion began in 1916, and although they had different stylistic manners, he joined the painters N.N. Tonitza and Br. Şirato, with whom he would exhibit.

The basis of his painting was reality, the various and characteristic aspects of Romanian life, especially the one in the countryside, as well as his passion for the landscape. In his painting there are no exaggerations, pathos, chromatic explosions, emotional subjectivism. The essential element is the presence of man, whether in compositions, portraits and even in landscapes. At his artistic debut, Ștefan Dimitrescu had an aptitude, preferably in graphics, for social satire.

The drawing was incisive, energetically drawn, dynamic in expression. It will later retain the quality of the drawing, its coherence, energy and precision. His painting has an intense coloristic vibration, the artist tends towards the synthesis of harmonies by simplifying the colors, which gives the painting serenity and gravity.

The most popular painting is "Deaths from Cașin", a shocking image of the human drama caused by the war. After the First World War, the painter also attacked larger compositions ("Miners", "Târgul de la Săliște", etc.), but kept the same pictorial qualities.

The most accomplished landscapes are those from Dobrogea, on the shores of the Black Sea or the Danube, bright and vividly colored, judiciously harmonized and painted with extreme sensitivity and chromatic refinement.

Along with the artists from the Group of Four, Ștefan Dimitrescu established himself in Romanian art as a special figure with an original artistic personality and a certain pictorial excellence. He died on May 22, 1933 in Iasi.

▪️ 50 x 69 cm,

▪️ oil/cardboard,

▪️ signed.