# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/octavian-smigelschi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:02:36.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/octavian-smigelschi"
name: "Octavian Smigelschi"
slug: "octavian-smigelschi"
description: "Octavian or Octav Smigelschi was an Austro-Hungarian painter and printmaker, one of the leading culturally Romanian artists in his native Transylvania. Of mixed Polish, Aromanian, and possibly Ruthenian, background, he identified mainly with the Romanian-speaking Greek-Catholics, although some of his most important work was also done for the rival Romanian Orthodox Church. Smigelschi studied under Bertalan Székely at the Drawing School and Art Teachers' College in Budapest, becoming familiar with the historicist trend in contemporary Hungarian art. While working on and off at high schools in Upper Hungary and Transylvania, he experimented with borrowings from ancient Romanian handicrafts. Smigelschi's European journeys with Arthur Coulin took him to Cervara di Roma, where he studied Renaissance art, while moving away from academic art and into Symbolism and Art Nouveau."
tagline: "Transylvanian painter (1866–1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Octavian_Smigelschi_-_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1866-03-21"
deathDate: "1912-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.61
  momentum:             4.474770336839303
  historical:           6.341541333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavian_Smigelschi"
    title: "Octavian Smigelschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavian_Smigelschi"
    title: "Octavian Smigelschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavian_Smigelschi"
    title: "Octavian Smigelschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD"
    title: "オクタヴィアン・スミゲルスキ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavianus_Smigelschi"
    title: "Octavianus Smigelschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavian_Smigelschi"
    title: "Octavian Smigelschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavian_Smigelschi"
    title: "Octavian Smigelschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12737072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump