Theodor Aman biography
Date of birth : 1831-03-20
Date of death : 1891-08-19
Birthplace : Câmpulung-Muscel, Romania
Nationality : Romanian
Category : Famous Figures
Last modified : 2011-10-13
Credited as : painter, art grafic, sculptor
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After mastering the principles of painting in Craiova and Bucharest, where he studied under Constantin Lecca (1807–87) and Carol Valstein (1795–1857), he left for Paris around 1850. There he attended the studio of Michel-Martin Drolling and, after Drolling’s death, that of François-Edouard Picot. In 1853 he made his public début at the Paris Salon with a Self-portrait (Bucharest, Mus. A. Col.). A year later he travelled to Constantinople (now Istanbul), where the Sultan bought his painting the Battle of Oltenita (1854; Istanbul, Dolmabahce Pal.).
Aman then went to the Crimea, where he documented the Battle of Alma (Bucharest, N. Mus. A.) in a painting shown at the Exposition Internationale in Paris (1855). The autumn of the same year and the spring of the following year were spent in Wallachia, where the prince, Barbu Stirbei, honoured Aman with a minor nobiliary title and a grant to enable him to continue his studies in France. In September 1856, after an interval in Italy, he finally returned to Romania, thereafter leaving only sporadically.
