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1985 WATERCOLOR CM. 20 X 28,5 / in. 8¾ X 11¼
COLOR POETRY
ith architecture as her
igia was born in 1935 in
ABOUT L a Transylvanian mountain W profession, painting was
SCANDINAVIA BY village not far from the city her passion. She primarily
A ROMANIAN of Sibiu. In 1952 she from paints with watercolors,
but also gouache, ink and
graduated high school at
only 17 years of age. She sketches. In 1961 she had
he started early, Ligia passed the entry exam for her first exhibition - eight
SPodorean, this colorful, the Ion Mincu architect water colors in an exhibition
temperamental Romanian, academy in Bucharest on the in Iasi, where she worked as
whose legacy from the most first attempt. At the age of an architect until 1964. That
hardened and genuine peasant 23 she received her architect year she opened her first
stock has entered into a diploma. Not even a year solo exhibition in Bucharest.
successful union with the later, her first large architect Around that time she moved
modern age and its demands project was completed, a new to Brasov, where she would
for education opportunities for residential zone in Iasi with reside until 1969. During this
each and everyone on the basis 7000 apartments and all time she projected warehouses
of personal qualifications and social, cultural, sanitary and and factories as well as a
nothing else. commercial facilities. hotel in Sibiu. She also made
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