Constantin Daniel Stahi
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Constantin Daniel Stahi was a Romania
Romania
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n painter and gravure artist.

Biography

In 1862 he entered the National School of Fine Arts
George Enescu University of Arts of Iaşi
The George Enescu University of Arts is a public university in Iaşi, Romania, founded in 1860. Its focus was remodelled in 1992. Due to the reunion of the Conservatory of music and dramatic art and the National Society of Fine Arts, the institution was regrouped to focus on plastic arts, theatre...

 from Iaşi where he was taught by Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare
Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare
Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare was a Romanian painter.- External links :# http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Panaiteanu-Bardasare#Biografie*...

 and Gheorghe Şiller. He continued his artistic education in Munich
Munich
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 where, for seven years, he studied painting, metal gravure and xylography.

He painted still life paintings representing small objects that were surrounding him, such as old books, newspapers, religious items, chairs, shoes, plates and especially fruits.
Also, he painted many portraits of famous people of his time (for example Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation...

, painted in 1881).
Many others of his paintings take inspiration from the simple life in the countryside in idyllic compositions and by painting peasants having as models people living in Bavaria
Bavaria
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 and Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 regions.

Beside his artistic career, he was a professor and, later on, the headmaster of the National School of Fine Arts in Iaşi between 1892 and 1902, following Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare
Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare
Gheorghe Panaiteanu Bardasare was a Romanian painter.- External links :# http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Panaiteanu-Bardasare#Biografie*...

.

He died in his house on Bărboi street in Iaşi on June 18, 1920 and was interred at Eternitatea Cemetery.

External links

C. D. Stahi - A master of painting
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