Adam Baltatu was born on April 8, 1889 in Husi, Vaslui, Romania, in a family with a tradition in vine cultivation. Adam Baltatu has experienced throughout the childhood the delightful regions of Moldavian hills and tasted the satisfaction of the rich and melancholic harvests of autumn evenings.
Adam's artistic training took place alongside professors Constantin Artachino and Gheorghe Popovici at the School of Belle Arte in Iasi in 1915 - 1919, where he came in contact with the art of the great Romanian artists, Nicolae Grigorescu and Stefan Luchian, feeling closer to the artistic vision of the former. Moreover, between 1921 and 1922 he studied at the Belle Arte Institute in Rome.
In 1917 Adam withdrew from the Belle-Arte School in Iasi and went to Bucharest, where he opened an exhibition in the Mozart Hall. In 1921, after a competition, he was admitted to the Superior Institute of Belle Arte in Rome in VII, but after only a few months, for financial and health reasons, he returned to Romania in 1922, first in Huşi, then to Bucharest. Between 1923 and 1929 he opened three personal exhibitions in the capital and took a documentary trip to Italy and France.
Together with Leon Alexandru Biju, Lucian Grigorescu, Gheorghe Chirovici, Paul Molda, and Gheorghe Simotta he founded the Fine Arts Trade Union. Moreover, he was a part of the Artistic Youth Society and "Our Group." In 1950 Adam was appointed lecturer at the Department of Drawing, Painting, and Composition at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, and in 1952 he became a professor, a position he performed until 1966. He debuted at the Moldovan Painters' Salon of 1916, with 75 works.
Adam was considered a great landscape artist, but his work also contained static natures and remarkable portraits. He was considered by the critics of the time a serious, profound painter with a well-established technique. From the point of view of the chromatic registry, the early years were under the sign of an artistic vision based on sober agreements and colorful touches of velvety appearance, dissolving the consistency of the nuances and making them look like enamel. He also created mural paintings in several churches and exhibited extensively. The artist died on May 3, 1979.
Adam Baltatu adhered to the artistic traditions of Impressionism.
