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G E O R G E    S A R U

 

 

Actual date of birth: February 29th, 1920. Officially registered at March 1st, 1920

 

EDUCATION:

 

1963                        Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci – Perugia, Italy

1946-1948               Academy of Fine Arts – Bucharest, Romania

                                Master of Fine Arts

1939-1944                              Academy of Fine Arts – Jassy, Romania

Bachelor of Fine Arts

 

STUDY JOURNEYS:

     

                                Mexico, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Italy, Switzerland, USA,

                                Denmark, West Germany, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Sweden

                                Norway, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Bulgaria.

1983                        Invited to live and paint in the United States by the U.S.I.A.

                                (United States Information Agency)

1965                        Invited to live and paint in Mexico                                         

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PROFESSION:      Artist Painter

 

1948-1982              Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts “N. Grigorescu”- Bucharest

1950-1964                             Editor in chief at “ARTA” Magazine

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

 

1950-2003                             Fine Arts Guild of Romania

1963-2003                             International Association of Fine Arts (AIAP) of UNESCO

 

 

PARTICIPATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:


                                Joins to various shows in Europe, Asia and America

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

 

1995                         International Man of the Year – Cambridge, England

1982                         Professor Emeritus of Art – Bucharest, Romania

1982                         Special Award for Painting – Fine Art Guild of Romania             

1979                         National Prize for Monumental Tapestry (with wife Liana Saru)

1976                         Gold Medal and Laureate of the Triennial Exhibition – Sofia 

1968                         Order of the Cultural Merit – Bucharest, Romania

1964                         Special Award for Monumental Art (mosaic for public squares)

1953                         International Award for Painting, World Youth Festival

1951                         Laureate of the State Prize – Bucharest, Romania       

1950                         National Award for Painting, the Culture Ministry of Romania

1949                         Prize “Ion Andreescu”- Romanian Academy of Arts and Letters

 

 

WORKS IN MUSEUMS:

 

                                 Hermitage – USSR

                                 Weisman Art Museum – Minneapolis

                                 National Museums of Art – Bucharest, Jassy, Timisoara, Cluj,

                                 Oradea, Galatzi, Suceava, Constantza, Turnu-Severin

 

 

WORKS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

                                

 

                     The Weisman Museum of Art, USA, then collections in:

                                 France, Italy, Russia, Mexico, USA, Denmark, Japan, Germany,  

                                 Spain, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil,

                                 Canada, Romania, Luxembourg

 

 

SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:

 

1979                         Prague, Czechoslovakia

1975                         Museum of Modern Art – Triennial of Sczecin, Poland

1975                         Quebec

1974                         Cairo, Egypt

1973                         Washington

1973                         San Sebastian, Spain

1972                         Orly, France

1972                         Leningrad

1968                         Paris

1965                         Museum of Modern Art – Triennial of Sczecin, Poland

1963                         Berlin

1961                         Museum of Modern Art – Paris, France (here, next to Brancussi, Saru displays several paintings. Among them was “Two young Welders” which was reproduced on a Postage Stamp Emission)

1961                         Geneva

1958                         Moscow

1956                         Vienna, Austria

1956                         Biennale di Venezia (XVIII) – Venice, Italy

1954                         Biennale di Venezia (XVII) – Venice, Italy

 

 

ONE MAN SHOWS:

 

2004                         Romanian Cultural Center – Post Mortem

1999                         Gallery@49, New York

1997                         Romanian Cultural Center, NY Gallery

1995                         The York Square Gallery, New Haven, CT

1991                         Basil – Spingarn Gallery, Matawan, NJ

1991                         Dome Gallery, Broadway, SOHO – New York

1990                         Morin – Miller Gallery, 57Street, New York

1989                         Bonwitt – Teller at Trump Tower, 57Street, New York

1989                         Morin – Miller Gallery, 57Street, New York

1988                         Morin – Miller Gallery, 57Street, New York

1988                         M.A.T. Gallery, Montreal, Canada

1988                         Lawrence Gallery, New York

1987                         Alex Gallery, Washington, DC

1985                         Victor Art Gallery, New York

1983                         LeMire Gallery, New Orleans

1983                         H.H. Leonard Gallery, Washington, DC

1981                         Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest

1979                         “Simeza” Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1977                         National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania

1977                         Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest

1970                         Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest

1969                         “Orizont” Gallery, Bucharest

1960                         Puskin Museum, Moscow, USSR

1956                         Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest