Mișu Popp

Mișu Popp (March 19, 1827 – March 6, 1892) was a Romanian painter and muralist.

Mișu Popp
Mișu Popp – Self Portrait
Born(1827-03-19)March 19, 1827
Brașov, Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire
DiedMarch 6, 1892(1892-03-06) (aged 64)
Brașov, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
NationalityRomanian
Alma materAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna
Known forpainting, mural
MovementAcademism

Biography

Born in Brașov, in the Principality of Transylvania, he was the eighth child of Ioan Popp Moldovan de Galați (1774–1869) and Elena (1783–1867), born Ivan, a family from the Făgăraș region. His father was a church muralist, painter and sculptor.

Popp finished his art studies in 1848, at the Academy of Fine Arts from Vienna, where he developed a serious academic style.

He carried on the work of his father by painting several churches from Bucharest, Brașov (Tocile, Saint Nicholas Church), Araci, Râșnov, Satulung, Târgu-Jiu, Câmpulung, Urlați, etc. Between 1847 and 1853 he painted with Constantin Lecca the church of Curtea Veche from Bucharest.

But his main art legacy resides in creating many portraits of the personalities of his time (Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Andrei Mureșanu, Vasile Alecsandri, etc.) and of some famous historical figures, such as Michael the Brave, inspired from a contemporary engraving of the voivode.

His paintings can be admired in Bucharest at the Romanian Literature Museum and the National Art Museum, as well as in museums in Arad, Brașov, Ploiești, and Sibiu.

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See also: Popp
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