Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck


Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck was a Romanian painter with a strong influence on cultural life in the interwar period. She was a promoter of Feminism, contributing to the establishment of the "Association of women painters and sculptors" and "Feminin artistic circle".

Biography

Cecilia Cuțescu was born in the village Râul Vadului, in the Câineni commune. She was adopted by her maternal grandparents, from which she has the name Cuțescu. She remained however very close to her parents, Natalia and Ion Brăneanu, and her sisters, Fulvia – who died in her teen years – and Ortansa – who became an important feminist activist in Romania.
She began studies at Damenakademie, Munich, in 1897. In 1899 she leaves for Paris, taking classes at Academie Julien. Her paintings are introduced to the public through exhibitions held in France and Romania.

Distinctions

In June 2010, from the initiative of the rector of the Economic Studies Academy of Bucharest, Gheorghe Roșca, and of the mayor of Câineni, Ion Nicolae, a commemorative plaque was placed in the village Râul Vadului.
The Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum is a modern art museum located in Bucharest, Romania, dedicated to the painter and her husband.