of social and political developments inside Greater Romania, was supportive of strike actions in the Jiu Valley, and used his art to attack anti-Semitic trends in Romanian society. Towards the end of his life, he became to sympathise with communism (he was not, however, affiliated with the Communist Party of Romania). Notes References Maria Epure, Octav Băncilă, Editura de Stat pentru Literatură şi Artă, Bucharest, 1956 Victor Frunză, Istoria stalinismului în România ("The History of Stalinism in Romania"), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1990 Vasile Niculae, Ion Ilincioiu, Stelian Neagoe, Doctrina ţărănistă în România. Antologie de texte ("Peasant Doctrine in Romania. Collected Texts"), Editura Noua Alternativă, Social Theory Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1994 Gallery External links Short biography 20th-century Romanian painters Realist painters Academic staff of the George Enescu National University of Arts Romanian activists Poporanists Romanian communists Romanian pacifists Romanian schoolteachers People from Botoșani Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni 1872 births 1944 deaths