Alexandrina Cantacuzino (1876-1944)
Romanian women activist. Studied in France. She created ‘Societatea ortodoxa nationala a femeilor` (1918-1938), but also some other feminist associations.
Tag: ROMANIA
Elena Buznea-Meissner (1867-1940)
Romanian women activist. She studied literature at the University of Iasi.
Maria Buțureanu (1870-1919)
Romanian activist for women rights, journalist. She graduated from sociology. She also studied in Lausanne, Berlin, Venice, Brussels. She published in several magazines on women issues.
Olga Bancic (1912-1944)
Romanian communist militant, lived in France and fought in the France resistance during the Second World War.
Ecaterina Arbore (1873-1937)
Socialist militant, studied medicine in Bucharest (graduated in 1896). Member of the Executive Committee of the Romanian Social-Democrat Party. Left Romania for URSS in 1918. Died during the Stalinist purges.
Margareta Sterian (1897-1992)
Romanian painter, writer. She studied at Ranson Academy in Paris and Ecole du Louvre. Member of the Avant-garde.
Wanda Sachelarie-Vladimirescu (1916-2008)
Romanian painter. Studied in Paris at Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Magdalena Rădulescu (1902-1983)
Painter. She studied at Belle Arte Academy in Munich and La Grande Chaumière in Paris. She left Romania in 1947 and lived in Lausanne.
Milița Pătrașcu (1892-1976)
Romanian sculptor. She was born in Chișinău, studied sculpture in Moscow and Literature in Sankt Petersburg, paintings and sculpture in Munich with Kandinsky and in Paris with Matisse and Bourdelle.
Tia Peltz (1923-1999)
Painter and graphic designer of Romanian avant-garde.