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Horia Damian
Romanian painter and sculptor (–)
Not to be confused with Horia Demian.
Horia Damian (Bucharest, 27 Feb - Paris 14 May )[1] was a Romanian painter and sculptor.
Biography
Damian enrolled at the School of Architecture in Bucharest in In that same year he made his debut at the Salonul Official de Pictura at Sala Dalles in Bucharest.[2] His first one-man show took place at the Ateneul Roman in Bucharest in He was awarded the Anastase Simu Prize for painting.
In , he won a scholarship to Paris, where he later settled.
After a few months with André Lhote he worked with Daniel Lager in and then studied with Auguste Herbin, becoming acquainted with Piet Mondrian's work through Felix del Marle (–).
This encounter with abstract art led to his first truly original paintings, such as Starry Night,[3] which consists of a geometric arrangement of white dots.
He destroyed most of the works he produced during the second half of the s,