Leon Viorescu

Leon Viorescu
Leon Viorescu
Born	1886; Botoșani. Romania
Died	1936, (50 years); Bucharest, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Education	Belle Arte Art School of Iași
Occupation	Painter
Known for	Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

Leon Viorescu (born 1886, Botoșani – died 1936, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter.

Career

Viorescu graduated at the Belle Arte Art School of Iași, being from the same generation as Ștefan Dimitrescu and Nicolae Tonitza, who was a very good friend of Viorescu.

His main profession was that of a public clerk in the Romanian Ministry of Culture starting from 1920. The financial stability provided by his job was decisive for the start of his artistic career.

Viorescu chose pointillism for the main form of artistic expression but with a reinterpretation it his own personal painting style.

Viorescu approached landscape, interiors, still lifes , these styles defined him as master painter in the Romanian Interbelic era. Of all the topics, the most preferred were compositions which are remarked by the interior atmosphere created that are typical and unmistakable of his own style.^[1]