The City of Iași in 1882. An Urban Landscape by Jean-Baptiste Foltzer Cover Image

ORAȘUL IAȘI ÎN ANUL 1882. UN PEISAJ URBAN DE JEAN-BAPTISTE FOLTZER
The City of Iași in 1882. An Urban Landscape by Jean-Baptiste Foltzer

Author(s): Cezar Marius Varvaroi
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Editura Palatul Culturii
Keywords: Jean-Baptiste Foltzer Alsatian painter; Iași; urban landscape; academic painting; private collections

Summary/Abstract: Jean-Baptiste Foltzer (1829-1916) is an Alsatian painter, later established near Paris, becoming a member of the French Artist Society in 1884. He traveled through Levant, and also arrived in Romania, reaching both Iasi and Bucharest, in the 1880s-1890s. The urban landscape representing the city of Iasi in 1882 is the only testimony of its presence in the former capital of Moldova. Such representations are rare for Iași in the second half of the nineteenth century and that is why the painting has a documentary value, besides its intrinsic artistic qualities. The work, preserved until recently in France, is today in a private collection in Spain.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 289-296
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian