Constantin Flondor is a Romanian painter and also a founding member of the groups 1+1+1, Prolog, and Sigma.
Background
Constantin Flondor was born on December 16, 1936 in Cernăuţi, Bucovina, into the family of Dumitru Flondor and Claudia - Rome Flondor, born Ivasiuc. His father was the son of Gheorghe D. Flondor, a volunteer from the village of Volcineţ, Hotin County. Dumitru Flondor was part of the Bessarabian branch of Flondor Family, descended from Constantin Knight of Flondor. Constantin has a brother, Sergiu Flondor. In 1949 his family moved in Timişoara.
Education
In 1950 - 1954 Constantin studied at the Fine Arts High School in Timisoara. During 1954 - 1960 he studied painting at the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Institute in Bucharest.
Career
Constantin Flondor became the teacher at the Timișoara Fine Arts High School in 1962. Starting in 1991, he has been a university professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Timișoara, and is invited, as a professor, at the Sommermalakademie Beratzhausen in Germany. He became a co-founder of the 1+1+1 group in 1966, of the Sigma group in 1969, and of the Prolog group in 1985.
Constantin Flondor found the sources of his reflections on the limit between the reality of creation and the objective reality, in nature and time. His artistic endeavor will be characterized by analytical attention, focused on the observation of nature, and translated into his works through the mediation of geometry. Thus, the natural randomness ends up being recorded in a decidedly rigorous and technical way, as his Solarograms, developed in 1976, attest.
He will eventually integrate new media into his artistic practice (photography, film), initially as a form of documentation, than as stand-alone artistic media. An important part of his artistic activity will consist of his actions undertaken with the pupils of the Art High School in Timișoara, where, along with his colleagues in the Sigma group, he managed to impose a new pedagogical methodology.
Constantin Flondor adhered to the artistic traditions of Abstract Art and Op Art.
Membership
During 1966 - 1981 Constantin was a founding member of artist groups '1+1+1' and 'Sigma'. In 1985 he became a founding member of artist group 'Prologue'.
Connections
Constantin is married to Sanda (Străin) Flondor, daughter of Nicolae Străin and Delia Stoinescu. Constantin and Sanda Flondor have a daughter Andreea Flondor, who was born in 1965.