A Romanian painter, who specialized in watercolors.

He was born March 8, 1882, in Orsova, and like many artists, showed talent from an early age. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, and as a young man lived in Vienna and Sofia, before returning to Bucharest. He did travel around a bit more, but his life was mostly uneventful. He worked for a review called Furnica, or the Ant, and founded the Cenaclul Idealist, or the Idealistic Literary Circle. He also assisted in founding Sindicatul artelor frumoase din Romania, or the Romanian Union of Fine Arts. He exhibited throughout his life, and was as successful as a Romanian water colorist could be. He slowly lost his vision throughout the 1930's, which halted his work, though a partial recovery in 1947 led to renewed painting. He died March 11, 1963.

In modern terms, I'd say his paintings have a psychedelic feel. The technique is realist, but the execution and the colors are a little off, giving the paintings an hallucinatory aspect. Sometimes, his paintings remind you of an eastern European Norman Rockwell: he was fond of slice of life type "scenes". But he also painted chilling and dark scenes of war, mysterious symbolic works, and haunting portraiture.

In no particular order, some of his paintings are (English titles):

Son of the artist
Fighting for the Flag
Toward the Styx River
Reading young man

You can find out more at http://www.bednarik.non-profit.nl/, where you can also view some of his paintings.