Contribuţia artistei Claudia Cobizev la înfrumuseţarea Palatului Cultural al Unirii din Chişinău
The contribution of the artist Claudia Cobizev to the beautification of the Cultural Palace of the Union in Chișinău

Summary/Abstract: During the interwar period there was built one important cultural edifice of the Cultural Palace or the Palace of Culture (today the “Mihai Eminescu” National Theater) in Chișinău. In 1938, the committee who was responsible for the construction of the Union monument in Chișinău led by Pan Halippa proposed renaming the new “Cultural Palace of the Union”. In the hall of that palace the miniature of the Union monument cast in bronze was to be exhibited by the sculptor Alexandru Plămădeală. In 1943 a competition was announced for six bas-reliefs with human figures on the theme of culture and art, which were to be installed in the vestibule of the building. The winner of this competition became the young sculptor Claudia Cobizev. The National Archival Agency keeps a file on the Palace’s decoration materials made by Claudia Cobizev. Also it included some photographs of the six models made by the artist and represented the following subjects: 1) Theater; 2) Science and Culture; 3) Prose and Poetry; 4) Architecture and Sculpture; 5) Dance; 6) Music and Painting. It’s known that two executed bas-reliefs (“Poetry and Prose” and “Theater”) ended up being exhibited in the vestibule of the Cultural Palace, but at the beginning of 1944 the works were stopped due to the approach of the front line. Subsequently, traces of these sculptural works were lost.

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