Mișu Popp
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| nationality = Romanian
| field = painting, mural
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| movement = Academism
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Mișu Popp (March 19, 1827 – March 6, 1892) was a Romanian painter and muralist.
Biography
Born in Brassó, Kingdom of Hungary (now Brașov, Romania), he was the eighth child of Ioan Popp Moldovan de Galați (1774–1869) and Elena (1783–1867), born Ivan, a family from the Fogaras region. His father was a church muralist, painter, and sculptor.
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, Brașov (Tocile, Saint Nicholas Church), Araci, Râșnov, Satulung, Târgu-Jiu, Câmpulung, Urlați, 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 Mureșanu, Vasile Alecsandri, etc.) and of some famous historical figures, such as Michael the Brave, inspired from a contemporary engraving of the voivode.
His paintings are displayed in Bucharest at the Romanian Literature Museum and the National Art Museum, as well as in museums in Arad, Brașov, Ploiești, and Sibiu. A street in Râșnov bears his name.{{cite web|url=http://orasul.biz/strazi-rasnov-bv/strada-mi%C5%9Fu-popp/|title=Strada Mișu Popp|lang=ro|website=orasul.biz|access-date=November 24, 2023}} He is buried in Brașov's Groaveri cemetery.{{in lang|ro}} [https://protopopiatul-brasov.ro/biserici/biserica-sf-cuv-parascheva/ Description of Groaveri Church] at the Brașov archpriest’s district site
Gallery
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Image: Ion Heliade Radulescu Popp.jpg |Portrait of Ion Heliade Rădulescu
Image: Misu Popp - Mihai Viteazul.jpg |Portrait of Michael the Brave
Image: Misu Popp - Portretul lui Andrei Muresanu.jpg |Portrait of Andrei Mureșanu
Image: Misu Popp - Tatal pictorului citind.jpg|Portrait of the painter's father
Image: Misu Popp - Portretul Sevastiei Panovici.jpg |Portrait of Sevastia Panovici
Image: Misu Popp - Femeia in albastru.jpg |Lady in blue
Image: Misu Popp - Taranca italiana (Rugaciunea).jpg |Italian peasant woman praying
Image: Misu Popp - Portretul mamei pictorului.jpg|Portrait of the painter's mother
Notes
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External links
{{Commons category|Mișu Popp}}
- {{in lang|en}} [https://archive.today/20071006213917/http://www.mab.ro/en/17_20/05en_popp.htm Art Museum from Brașov – Mișu Popp]
- {{in lang|ro}} {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060506165357/http://www.compendium.ro/pers_detalii.php?id_pers=2169 Compendium – Mișu Popp]}}
- {{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045349/http://www.gallerya.ro/artist_gal.php?id=1472&language=1 Art gallery – Mișu Popp]
- {{in lang|ro}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928064956/http://www.ghidbrasov.ro/despre_brasov_brasoveni_celebri.php Famous people from Brașov – Mișu Popp]
- {{in lang|ro}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200250/http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro/ro/tests/acta/acta2/10_popescu.pdf Elena Popescu – The portraits of Mișu Popp in the art collection of Brukental Art Museum from Sibiu]
- {{in lang|ro}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153423/https://www.bvau.ro/manifestari/2007/0823/domnitori.html Exhibition "Princes of the Romanian Principalities" ]
{{See also|Popp}}
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Category:19th-century Romanian painters
Category:Romanian Austro-Hungarians
Category:Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Category:Artists from the Austrian Empire
Category:Painters from Austria-Hungary