Aurel Ciupe (May 16, 1900 – July 18, 1988),[1] was a Romanian painter, educator, and museum director.

[2] He authored numerous portraits, and landscape paintings, and worked within the Fauvism movement.

[2] Ciupe moved to Budapest to study fine art and law after secondary school.

[2] In 1919, Ciupe received a scholarship from the governing council to study fine art in Paris, where he attended Académie Julian until 1922.

[3] After leaving Rome, he briefly moved to Târgu Mureş to join his family.