Margareta Sterian collection

Born on 16.03.1897, Buzău - died in 1992, Bucharest.

Studies:

• Academia Ranson with Roger Bissiére and Amedée de la Patellière
• Art history courses with Louis Hautecoeur and Paul Vitry
• The Louvre School, Paris (1926 - 1928)
• Travels between 1931 and 1932 in the USA

International exhibitions:

• Warsaw-1934
• Paris-1937
• Munchën-1966
• Istambul-1967
• Düsseldorf - 1968
• Budapest - 1971

Participate in the Official Salons and exhibitions of artistic groups:

• Criterion
• New art
• The contemporary
• Plastic group 1934
• And after the war, at the State Annuals

She also participates in drawing and painting, engraving, decorative art salons in the country.

Awards and distinctions:

• Award of the Ministry of Arts for painting
• In 1937 he was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Exhibition of Arts and Industry in Paris
• In 1968 he was awarded the "Cultural Merit" Order
• Between 1977 and 1984, retrospectives of her work were organized in Bucharest
• In 1985 she was awarded the Special Prize of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania

In 1993, a large exhibition was organized posthumously in Bucharest and the "Margareta Sterian" award was established, for museographic and plastic creation, in other words for the best exhibition of heritage and contemporary art.

Until the end of her life (1992), the artist carried out a rich activity as a poet and translator of poetry (several volumes of verses and an anthology of modern American poetry), ceramist, decorative artist, book illustrator.

The quality of Margareta Sterian's post-modernist works in the field of textile art consists in the fact that the artist, after initially getting excited about everything new she finds anywhere, in other cultures, after creating under this influence, returns to the spirit of authentic Romanian creations, autochthonizing everything.

The works represent a small but original collection of decorative works that are presented to us in a diverse and modern reality at the same time obtained through techniques that highlight each work - such as that of collage, embroideries and various applications on the support material, the artist succeeding to increase the beauty of the world that he generously reveals to the one who looks at and understands his creation.

The painter Mircea Barzuca, the artist's disciple who received the entire collection of Margareta Sterian's works to take care of her after the artist's death, considered that the most suitable place for this mini collection of textile art is in Buzău, her hometown and donating it Buzau County Museum in 2010.