painter Gheorghe Petrașcu at the Panait Istrati County Library in Brăila on 20 November 2012. Chronology 1872 – Gheorghe Petrașcu was born on 1 December in Tecuci. He was the son of Costache Petrovici and Elena Bițu-Dimitriu. He also had two brothers: Nicolae Petrașcu, writer and publicist, and Vasile Petrașcu (1863–1945), physician. 1889 – finished the classes of the gymnasium from Tecuci. He was noticed by the drawing teacher Gheoghe Ulinescu. In the same year he entered the Royal High School in Brăila. 1892 – he graduated from the high school in Brăila, took the baccalaureate and was admitted to the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Bucharest, whose courses he attended for two years. 1893 – enrolled in parallel at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. 1898 – graduated from the School of Fine Arts and with the help of Nicolae Grigorescu obtained a scholarship abroad. In the autumn of this year he made a short stop in Munich, after which he left for Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian. He had W. Bouguereau, Benjamin Constant and Gabriel Ferrier as teachers. He often returned to Romania or traveled to other European countries. 1900 – in December he opened his first personal exhibition at the Romanian Athenaeum. 1901 – on 3 December, together with Ipolit Strâmbulescu, Ștefan Popescu, Arhtur Verona, Kimon Loghi, Nicolae Vermont, Frederic Storck and Ștefan Luchian, he was a founding member of the Artistic Youth Society. 1902 – together with Ferdinand Earle made a trip to England, Holland, Belgium and Germany. 1903 – between 27 November and 24 December, he opened his second solo exhibition at the Romanian Athenaeum. 1904 – traveled to Italy, Florence and Naples, where he befriended the French painter Émile Bernard. 1905 – participated in the International Art Exhibition in Munich. 1906 – December 1906 – January 1907 made a trip to Aswan in Egypt. 1907 – between 5 February and 1 March, he opened his third solo exhibition at the Romanian Athenaeum. 1908 – participated in the competition for the drawing department at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. The contest was preceded by an exhibition with the works of competitors Octav Băncilă, Jean Alexandru Steriadi, Frederic Storck, Arthur Verona, Apcar Baltazar, Dimitrie Paciurea and others. He failed to win the contest. 1909 – began to participate in the official Salons of painting, sculpture and architecture. He won the second