Ion Mincu [SEP] place of death
Ion Mincu
Ion Mincu (; 1852 in Focşani – 1912 in Bucharest) was an architect, engineer, professor and politician in Romania.
He promoted a Romanian style in architecture, by integrating in his works the specific style of traditional Romanian architecture. As a recognition to his importance in the Romanian school of architecture, since 1953, the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest bears his name.
He was the teacher of Toma T. Socolescu, another remarkable Romanian architect.
From 1895 to 1899 he was
creative people he cited where Mincu, Eminescu, Zamfirescu, Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Ștefănescu-Delavrancea, Ion Luca Caragiale, Vlahuță, as well as the writer Ioan Slavici and the visual artists Nicolae Grigorescu and Ion Georgescu.
This theme is a characteristic trait in "Marin Gelea", where the eponymous hero, an architect, faces the moods of his public and ultimately fails to adjust to local culture. George Călinescu proposed that the protagonist was actually Petrașcu's good friend Mincu, and noted that the name used in the