Nicolae Dărăscu

[1] Born in Giurgiu, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest between 1902 and 1906, in the class of George Demetrescu Mirea.

After graduation, he was awarded a scholarship to the Académie Julian in Paris (which, as an admirer of its former students Nicolae Grigorescu and Ștefan Luchian, he had wanted to attend).

He studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and a year later, in 1907 at the École des Beaux-Arts under Luc-Olivier Merson.

Dărăscu traveled extensively and lived in the south of France (Toulon and Saint-Tropez, 1908), in Venice (1909), in Romania (in Vlaici, Olt County, 1913, and in Balcic, Southern Dobruja, 1919).

In 1917, along with the painters Camil Ressu, Ștefan Dimitrescu, Iosif Iser, Marius Bunescu and the sculptors Dimitrie Paciurea, Cornel Medrea, Ion Jalea, and Oscar Han, he founded the Arta Română association in Iași.