Camil Ressu

Ressu worked between 1880 and 1962 across painter. The registers place that work in portrait. This article rests on 3 published texts and 4 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Camil Ressu studied at Bucharest National University of Arts, George Enescu University of Arts and Académie Julian. Training under George Demetrescu-Mirea, Gheorghe Popovici and Jean-Paul Laurens is recorded. Gheorghe Naum, Aurel Cojan and Alexandru Ciucurencu are recorded as having studied under Camil Ressu. The recorded working language is Romanian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Camil Ressu is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Artist of the People.

• Name — Camil Ressu • Born — 28 January 1880 • Birthplace — Galați, Romania • Died — 1 April 1962 • Place of death — Bucharest, Romania • Movement — Post-impressionism, realism • Education — Bucharest National University of Arts George Enescu National University of Arts

Born in Galați, Ressu came from an Aromanian family that migrated to Romania from Macedonia at the start of the 19th century. His father, Constantin Ressu was a journalist and had studied law in Brussels. He was also an artist in his spare time. In 1887, Ressu was enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. He continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Iași, where he studied with painters Gheorghe Popovici and Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare. In 1902, he finished his studies in Iași, being awarded a silver medal, and left Romania for Paris, seeking to further develop his artistic skills. In Paris, he studied at the Académie Julian. In 1908, Ressu returned to Romania and became interested in social matters, contributing satirical drawings to several publications, including Furnica, Facla, and Adevărul. In the same year, he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Romania (or, rather, its surviving Bucharest circle, Socialist Union of Romania, formed around the paper România Muncitoare). In 1910, his works (landscapes and paintings with bucolic themes) were featured in the Tinerimii Artistice ("Artistic Youth") exhibition. Ressu opened his first personal exhibition in 1914, in Bucharest.

• Illustration — Reapers at Rest on a 1966 Romanian stamp • Illustration — Nude on a 1971 Romanian stamp In 1917, along with the painters Nicolae Dărăscu, Ștefan Dimitrescu, Iosif Iser, Marius Bunescu and the sculptors Dimitrie Paciurea, Cornel Medrea, Ion Jalea, and Oscar Han, he founded the Art of Romania association in Iași. During these years, he further developed his style as a landscape painter, and frequently visited the countryside in summer to paint portraits of peasants working in the fields and views of villages. He also painted still life, portraits of various personalities, and nudes. In 1921, he became the president of the Artists' Union of Romania. In 1925, after a prolonged stay in the village of Ilovăț, Mehedinți County, Ressu finished one of his best-known paintings, Reapers at Rest, currently housed in the Iași Museum of Art. Aside from his artistic pursuits, Camil Ressu was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest until 1941. From 1950, he was the honorary president of the Artists' Union and a professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Institute. In 1955, Romania's Communist regime awarded him the title of "People's Artist", and he later became a member of the Romanian Academy. He died in Bucharest in 1962, and was buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery.

• Illustration — Peasant Women in Church (1912) • Illustration — Countryside Funeral (1912) • Illustration — The Beer-Hall Academy (1913) • Illustration — Vlaici Church (1912-1914) • Illustration — Reapers at Rest (1925) • Illustration — Bathing (1924-1925)

Camil Ressu was born on 28 January 1880 in Galați. Ressu held the nationality of Romania. Ressu was educated at Bucharest National University of Arts (1897), George Enescu University of Arts (1900) and Académie Julian. Ressu studied under George Demetrescu-Mirea, Gheorghe Popovici and Jean-Paul Laurens.

Ressu worked as painter. Ressu was active from 1897 to 1962. The fields Ressu worked in include portrait. Ressu worked in Romanian. Ressu is placed by the collections within Tinerimea artistică, Arta română Society, Arta Society, Fine Arts Union and Official Salon of Painting and Sculpture.

Ressu died on 1 April 1962 in Bucharest. Ressu is buried at Bellu Cemetery.