Background
Dimitrie Paciurea was born on November 2, 1873 in Bucharest, Romania.
Dimitrie Paciurea was born on November 2, 1873 in Bucharest, Romania.
Dimitrie Paciurea studied at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania from 1890 to 1894 under Wladimir Hegel. He then studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1895 to 1899 under Gabriel Thomas and Jean-Antoine Enjalbert. Between 1898 and 1899 Paciurea studied at the Julian Academy in Paris, France, in the workshops of William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier.
Dimitrie Paciurea debuted at the Living Artists Exhibition in 1894. Since then he regularly exhibited at the Salons and various artistic events.
Since 1909 he was a teacher of sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest.
Paciurea authored of many monuments, gravestone sculptures and portrait busts , including L. Tolstoy (1921), as well as allegorical compositions, including the Sphinx (1912). His works adorn the Triumphal Arch in Bucharest
His last individual exhibition took place at Pavilionul Artelor in Bucharest, Romania in 1932.
Dimitrie Paciurea died on July 14, 1932 in Bucharest, Romania. He is buried at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania.
Dimitrie Paciurea received an honorable mention at the Lifetime Exhibition of Artists in 1894. In 1905 Paciurea, together with the architect VG Ştefănescu, won the First prize at the contest for two monumental fountains in Craiova, Romania. He also twice won the Second Prize at the Official Painting and Sculpture Salon in Bucharest, Romania, in 1909 and 1910.
Besides, Paciurea was awarded the medal at the Official Painting and Sculpture Salon in Bucharest, Romania in 1914.
In 1927 he won the National Sculpture Prize for his sculpture "Chimera of the Air". He also was awarded the bronze medal of the Great Second Class Prize for the "God of War" at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain in 1929.
Paciurea was one of the founders of the Romanian Art Society in 1919.
