Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș was a Romanian art historian, ethnographer, museologist and cultural journalist, also known as local champion of art conservation, Romanian Police leader and pioneer radio broadcaster.
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Palace of the Carol I Academic Foundation, c. 1904 (photograph by Alexandru Antoniu)
"Antonie Mogoș House", preserved in the Museum of the Romanian Peasant
Theodor Aman, În atelierul artistului ("In the Artist's Studio")
The Sibiu Cathedral, with paintings by Octavian Smigelschi
August von Mackensen reviewing Austro-Hungarian troops in occupied Bucharest
Tzigara-Samurcaș (third from the right, between Alexandru Vaida-Voevod and Liviu Rebreanu) as a judge of Miss Romania (March 17, 1929)
Tzigara-Samurcaș in 1936Awards 1
Academics born in the 1870s 6
About this person
Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș was a Romanian art historian, ethnographer, museologist and cultural journalist, also known as local champion of art conservation, Romanian Police leader and pioneer radio broadcaster. Tzigara was a member of the Junimea literary society, holding positions at the National School of Fine Arts, the University of Bucharest and lastly the University of Cernăuți. During his youth, he was secretary to Carol I, the King of Romania. Close to the royal family, he also served as head of the Carol I Academic Foundation, where he set up a large collection of photographic plates. Tzigara achieved fame in 1906 as founder of the "National Museum", nucleus of the present-day Museum of the Romanian Peasant, but was also involved in arranging and preserving the Theodor Aman art fund.
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