Background
Nicolae Vermont was born on October 10, 1866 in Bacău. He belonged to the Jewish community.
He studied with Theodor Aman at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest and graduated in 1886.
Vermont completed his training at the Munich Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 1893.
Nicolae Vermont was born on October 10, 1866 in Bacău. He belonged to the Jewish community.
He studied with Theodor Aman at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest and graduated in 1886. Vermont completed his training at the Munich Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 1893. He was able to attend the latter institution after being endorsed by the major Romanian artist Nicolae Grigorescu.
He began his career in 1884, as a contributor to the journal Universul.
In Munich, Vermont joined Tinerimea Artistică, a loose grouping of artists who rejected Academism - it rallied together Luchian, Arthur Verona, Kimon Loghi, Ipolit Strâmbu, Marius Bunescu, Alexandru Satmari, Oskar Späthe, Jean Alexandru Steriadi and Ştefan Popescu, and received backing from poet Ștefan Octavian Iosif. Like the rest of Tinerimea Artistică, Vermont was heavily influenced by Grigorescu during his youth.
In 1896, Vermont, Luchian, Artachino and Bogdan-Piteşti, founded Salonul Independenţilor, the local version of the French Société des Artistes Indépendants. The movement which they attempted to create accommodated various tenets, and, while proclaiming a need for renewal in Romanian art, stressed the importance of earlier traditions.
As Luchian incorporated Symbolism, Vermont developed his own style, a religious form of Realism. In parallel, with Luchian, Juan Alexandru Paraschivescu-Alpar, and Artachino, Vermont was one of the first to introduce themes related to the lives of unemployed individuals and social drifters. Such work was influenced by the Akademie der Bildenden Künste's genre painting.
Bogdan-Piteşti declared Vermont "one of the most accomplished" among Romanian painters, and bought many of his works. Two years after Salonul Independenţilor opened for the public, its initiators (together with Ioan Bacalbaşa) founded Societatea Ileana, an association dedicated to promoting new styles in art.
In 1906, during the 40th celebration of King Carol I's ascension to the Romanian throne, Vermont's paintings were exhibited in Bucharest alongside the works of Grigorescu, Verona and Loghi (they won the admiration of Krikor Zambaccian, the future art collector, who declared himself "obsessed" with their image).
Sewer
Departure Towards the Open Sea
Marine landscape of Constanta port
Gipsy Woman
The Spy
Flower Girl
Roses
A Walk Through the Park
Halt
Woman with Red Umbrella
A Walk Through Sinaia Forest
View of Dieppe's beach
Nude sitting
Peasant Woman with White Headscarf
Gypsy Women Talking
In Front of the Easel
Reverie
Închinarea păstorilor, cu motivele satului românesc
The Red Scarf
Noon in the Village
Gypsy Woman with Yellow Headscarf
Namaiesti Monastery
At the Well
The Love Letter
On the Seashore
Birch Wood
Seaming Wench
The Emigrants
Gipsy Woman in the Veranda
Docked Ship
Gypsy Woman (Study)
Constanța Promenade
Reading
Peasant Woman with Flowers
Dreaming
Gipsy Woman with Red Scarf
Flower Girl
Portrait of a man
The Muse
Fisherman Village in Brittany
Baigneuse
Romanian Stories
Summer Day
Two Workers on Strike
The Refugees
The Way Home
Thinking
Self-Portrait
Autumn Allegory (The Art and The Wine)
Carnations
At the Market
Peasant Woman with White Headscarf
Thinking
Louvre Entrance
The Flower Girl
Turkeys in Vlaici
Inn
The Emigrants (Last Ship)
Self-Portrait with Cap
In the Sun
Slavic Souls (“Crime and Punishment”)
Rotterdam Port
Spring Noon
Saint Ecaterina
Vermont abandoned Judaism and converted to the Romanian Orthodox Church.