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(1) Jean Al(ex) Steriadi
(b Bucharest, 29 Oct 1880; d Bucharest, 23 Nov 1956). Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, museum director and teacher. He studied at the Fine Arts School in Bucharest (1897–1901) before winning a bursary to study at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich (1901–3) under Wilhelm von Diez (1839–1907) and Gabriel von Hackl; he also studied privately in Munich under Heinrich Wolff (1875–1940) and Ernst Neumann (b 1871). In 1903–6 he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens and where he frequented the studio of Lucien Simon. He made his début in 1903 at the second exhibition of Tinerimea Artistica (The young artists) in Bucharest. From the time of his first one-man exhibition at the Ateneul Roman in Bucharest (1906) he tried to achieve a synthesis of the naturalism he had encountered in Munich, filled with anecdotal elements, and plein-air French painting. A prolific draughtsman, he also produced sketches, caricatures, lithographs and etchings, as well as painting landscapes, still-lifes, genre scenes, such as Whitewashers at the Central Market, Bucharest (1904; Bucharest, N. Mus. A.), which shows the influence of Impressionism, and portraits, such as his last work, Self-portrait (1956; Ploiesti, Mus. A.), which has a Rembrandtian sadness.
Part of the Steriadi family
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