Theodor Aman

Author: Theodor Aman Date: Sec. XIX Description: Gypsy life scenes, often encountered in the work of Carol Popp de Szathmari, also attracted Aman. He will process fragments inspired directly from Szathmari’s photographs and assemble them in his own compositions. Probably extracted from such a source is The Witch (“Bohemian Sorcerer of Romania”) which will be published […]

Author: Theodor Aman Date: 1879 Description: The plates – sometimes worked after photographs by his friend Carol Popp by Szathmari – capture the local picturesque in rustic scenes, in oriental themes with romantic echoes or in compositions inspired by the life of nomads, treated naturally. An intepreter of his work observes with remarkable intuition a transfiguration […]

Author: Theodor Aman Date: 1876 Description: Aman presents for foreigners, in the publications of the French publisher A. Cadart, a peasant dance in the south of the country, at the edge of the village, next to the boroughs covered with reeds. The group is made up of four shepherds in motion; on the left three fiddlers […]