Mişu Popp

Mişu Popp
Mişu Popp - Self Portrait
Born	March 19, 1827(1827-03-19) Braşov, Romania
Died	March 6, 1892(1892-03-06) (aged 64) Braşov, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Field	painting, mural
Movement	Academism

Mişu Popp (1827—1892) was a Romanian painter and muralist.

Biography

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

Mişu 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, Braşov (Tocile, Saint Nicholas Church), Araci, Râşnov, Satulung, Târgu-Jiu, Câmpulung, Urlaţi, 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 Mureşanu, 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, Braşov, Ploieşti, and Sibiu.

Gallery

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  Portrait of Ion Heliade Rădulescu

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  Portrait of Michael the Brave

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  Portrait of Andrei Mureşanu

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  Portrait of the painter's father

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  Portrait of Sevastia Panovici

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  Lady in blue

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  Italian peasant woman praying

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  Portrait of the painter's mother

External links

• (English) Art Museum from Braşov – Mişu Popp
• (Romanian) Compendium – Mişu Popp
• (English) Art gallery – Mişu Popp
• (Romanian) Famous people from Braşov – Mişu Popp
• (Romanian) Elena Popescu – The portraits of Mişu Popp in the art collection of Brukental Art Museum from Sibiu
• (Romanian) Exhibition "Princes of the Romanian Principalities"

See also: Popp

Persondata
Name	Popp, Misu
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Short description
Date of birth	March 19, 1827
Place of birth	Braşov, Romania
Date of death	March 6, 1892
Place of death	Braşov, Romania