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Place of Birth: Iași, Iași County, Romania
About Lascăr Vorel
- Lascar Vorel (August 19, 1879 – February 8, 1918) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter whose style was linked to Expressionism.
- He was the scion of a pharmacist clan in Piatra Neam?, but abandoned the family trade to take up drawing, and became a student at Munich's Academy of Fine Arts.
- Praised as an intellectual as well as a painter, he moved away from Art Nouveau, studying Cubism and Expressionism, and exchanging ideas with a young Marcel Duchamp.
- Vorel also worked as a cartoonist for Der Komet magazine, befriending Albert Bloch, Hanns Bolz and Erich Mühsam, and frequenting Café Stefanie.
- While active in immediate proximity to the early trends in German Expressionism, including Der Blaue Reiter, he never joined any artistic society.
- His avant-garde paintings, which often incorporated social commentary, alternated with more subdued and conventional landscapes and peasant portraits of Western Moldavia.
- Maintaining some interest in Romania's modern art scene, he was featured at Tinerimea Artistica shows and published sketch stories in Bucharest's literary magazines. Ailing from a chronic kidney disease, Vorel lived a withdrawn existence during World War I.
- He maintained a lively interest in politics and military developments, expressing his continued support for the Central Powers; he was also increasingly pessimistic about the future of art, and about his own ability to thrive.
- This period brought him into contact with Romanian writer Nae Ionescu, who was his admirer and promoter, but Vorel's notebooks suggest that their friendship was superficial.
- Briefly interned as a hostile alien, Vorel turned to pacifism during his final years, ultimately dying in Munich at age 38.
- He remains celebrated in Piatra Neam?, where some of his diaries have been published, but is relatively unknown in Romania at large.
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