Siska-Szabó Hajnalka

painter

George Enescu

composer

Szántay Lajos

arhitect

Constantin Brâncuşi

sculptor

Sergiu Nicolaescu

film director

Siska-Szabó

Hajnalka

She graduated at the Art and Art

History Section at the Science University

of Szeged and She did her Master’s Degree

at the University of Arts in Timisoara.

She has been the organiser and

leader of the International Art

Workshop in the village of Zerind, in

Arad county (Romania), since 2003.

She had a lot of collective and

individual exhibitions in Romania,

Hungary, Slovakia, the Netherlands,

Slovenia, Germany and Polland.

Besides painting she also has book illustrations and publications in

the field of Art History. She has been participating in different

International Art Workshops in Romania, Hungary and Slovakia

since 1991.

Constantin Brâncuşi (1876 – 1957)

His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance

forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic

allusions of representational art.

Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as

a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin,

Pablo Picasso and others. But other influences was

from Romanian folk

art.

As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving

wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first

to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des

Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907.

He was a Romanian sculptor, painter

and photographer who made his

career in France. Considered a

pioneer of modernism, he is one of

the most influential sculptors of the

20th-century.

Szántay Lajos (1872 – 1961)

Lajos Szántay was an architect from

Arad, who contributed to the creation

of the city’s actual image.

He attended the Hungarian Elementary

and Middle School in Arad, and then

went to high school to Budapest.

For his university education, he was the student of the

famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology In

Zurich.

Some of his most important buildings are: The Kohn

Palace; The Central Railway station; The Bohus

Palace. Through his career he finalized 72 projects and he left

many planned for the future.

He was also a talented violin player, and he played for

over thirty years as member of the Arad Philharmonics.

The Cenad Palace

The Red Church

The Culture Hall

The Szántay Palace

The Szántay Palace

George Enescu (1881 – 1955)

He showed musical talent

from early in his childhood. „What a fault to think, that a child, just because he is

little, bears insignificant dreams.” George Enescu

♪ Ciocarlia

♪ Rapsodia Romana

♪ Balada pentru vioara

♪ Poema Romana I

George Enescu was a Romanian

composer, violinist, pianist,

conductor, and teacher. He is

regarded by many as Romania's

most important musician.

At the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted

to the Vienna Conservatory. In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave

a private concert at the Court of Vienna, in the presence

of Emperor Franz Joseph.

Then he studied from 1895 to 1899 at

the Conservatoire de Paris. At the age of

only 16, George Enescu presented in

Paris his first mature work, Poema

Română.

He was also a noted violin teacher.

Yehudi Menuhin was among his pupils.

Sergiu Nicolaescu (1930 – 2013)

Sergiu Nicolaescu was a Romanian

film director, actor and politician. He

was best known for his historical films.

He grew up in Timişoara. He graduated

from the Polytechnic University of

Bucharest as a mechanical engineer.

After graduation he started to work as a

camera operator. He was hard-working,

well-organized, curious, intelligent and

keen of learning.

He is considered the most popular, loved and prolific

Romanian movie director. His film career spanning

55 years, leaves us today his legacy of some 60

movies, for the making of which he used to act at

times, simultaneously, as film director, as an actor,

and the writer/screenplayer.

„I will leave, but I'll never die."

Sergiu Nicolaescu