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On the Constanța seafront, Oana Florică placed a form that rises: “Aspiration” draws the eye toward the horizon, not toward the plinth. The composition is vertical, the material ho…
Vasile Călin Filip cut in “Waiting” a figure that stands, does not run: dropped shoulders, a closed volume, a pause held in the material. It is the opposite of the sports statues o…
Florentin Sîrbu names his work “Genesis”: matter gathering into form, voids and solids, a tension of beginning, not of portrait. He is not looking for a recognized figure; he is lo…
Gheorghe Fărcășiu and Iliya Yankov worked together a piece that looks like a site fragment: forms of a vessel, a wall, a sign, without copying a museum piece. The title, “Archaeolo…
Beside the Aurora hotel in Mamaia, Olga Porumbaru's sculpture has stood since the early 1970s: stone volumes that keep the rhythm of the wave, without mimicking a score. The author…
In front of the former Hotel București in Mamaia, Spiru Sabiescu placed in 1970 a stone bird worked a year earlier. No plaque, no signature. For decades people passed toward the be…
At the corner of Regina Elisabeta Boulevard, close to the harbour, Ada Geo Medrea cut in limestone a man at the helm, nearly three metres high. The work is for sailors, not for a n…
Cornel Medrea (1888–1956) modelled in stone, in 1963, two figures standing close to each other, as in a word said halfway. The ensemble was placed in 1964 beside the Victoria compl…
In the park in front of the Ion Jalea Museum, at the crossing of Boulevard Elisabeta and Arhiepiscopiei Street, the relief “People with Bulls” has stood since 1964. The author is I…
On the façade of the Sports Hall in Constanța, at Tomis 102-104, Zoe Băicoianu (1910-1987) stretched in 1960 a relief with young people in motion. The piece is on the list of histo…
Mustafa Kemal (1881–1938), born in Salonika, came out of the First World War as an officer and led, between 1919 and 1923, the war from which the Republic of Turkey appeared. The b…
Jean Constantin was born in 1928 in Techirghiol and grew up with Constanța behind him. On screen you have seen him in “Brigada Diverse” and alongside Amza Pellea in “Nea Mărin”; on…
In front of the National Institute for Marine Research and Development on Boulevard Mamaia no. 300 stands, since 1958, the bust of Grigore Antipa. Milița Petrașcu modelled it; the…
Ion Bănescu (1850-1909) was mayor only between 1905 and 1907, but in those two years he pushed the systematisation of the streets, the seafront, the link toward Mamaia and works th…
Eugeniu Botez signed as Jean Bart. He wrote about the Danube, navies and ports; in Tulcea, his bust stands at the theatre that bears his name. It is a lobby piece, not a market-squ…
On 15 January 2023, National Culture Day, Tulcea unveiled in TAVS Park the town's first public monument to Mihai Eminescu. Romeo Protopopescu modelled a bronze bust, set on a concr…
Vasile Pârvan (b. 1882) opened, after 1907, the excavations that brought Histria to light, took up Callatis and Tropaeum again, and read Tomis otherwise than from books. The bust i…
Panait Cerna was born in 1881 in the Tulcea village that now bears his name and died in 1913, at 32, after philosophy studies in Germany. The bust shows him young, with the brow of…
In front of the Art Museum in Constanța, a bronze bust shows Queen Marie. It is the face from the years after the Great War, when she passed through Dobrogea on inspections and at…
On Muratan Hill, near Pecineaga, a stone cross marks the field grave of more than 400 German soldiers fallen in October 1916, in the fighting at Topraisar-Muratan. It was raised by…
In Station Park in Constanța, a fountain from the 1970s combines metal, stone and water that moves pieces. There is no famous author on a plaque; it is a period installation, meant…
Sir Richard Wallace paid, in the 19th century, for a series of public fountains for Paris; the sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg gave them the form with the four caryatids. The mode…
On Boulevard Tomis, in the park in front of the “Oleg Danovski” National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Constantin Baraschi (1902-1966) set in 1963 a faun and a nymph on a plinth surrou…
Ion Jalea, a sculptor raised in Dobrogea, left in the city a group with mother and child. The lines are clear, without a theatrical gesture. The work stands in a public space, so y…
On the cliff, Corneliu Medrea’s group shows fishermen at work: bent bodies, nets, effort. It is not a hero on horseback. It is a twentieth-century sculpture that ties the city to t…
The bronze she-wolf with Romulus and Remus, a copy after the Lupa Capitolina of Rome, stands in Constanța as a sign that Tomis was a Roman city, not only a resort. The version here…
Măcin raised in 1922 a monument for those who fell in 1916–1918. A stone obelisk, inscriptions, sometimes wreaths on 1 December and on Heroes’ Day. The town stood on the Dobrogean…
In the park in the centre of Babadag stands the monument to those who fell in 1916–1918. Vertical stone, names, sometimes an eagle or a cross — a county form of honour, not a large…
In the centre of Cobadin stands a monument of stone and mosaic paid, in good part, from money gathered in the commune. It is for the locals fallen in 1916-1918, on a territory wher…
Beside the House of Culture in Constanța, a stone obelisk with bronze accents remembers the soldiers of 1877–1878. The ensemble was inaugurated in 1931; Boris Caragea is named as t…
On the bank of the Danube–Black Sea Canal, near Straja, Pavel Bucur raised between 1974 and 1976 a concrete ensemble some 38 metres high. The pieces came from the Precast Combine i…
The Ion Jalea Sculpture Museum keeps in front of it a stone archer, caught after the shot, not in full effort. In 1961 Jalea took up again a model from 1926: a young man, the bow l…
In front of the Sports Hall, on Boulevard Tomis, a bronze athlete turns the discus. Boris Caragea modelled him in 1958, with the weight on one foot and the shoulder drawn back, aft…
In 1962, when Mamaia was filling with new hotels, the sculptor Gavril Covalschi cut in stone a rower: a bent trunk, oars suggested, movement held in a block. The work was thought f…
Right in front of the Art Museum, at Boulevard Tomis no. 82, a bronze child leans toward a frog. Cornel Medrea modelled the group in 1962; its first address was in front of Hotel S…
Constantin Baraschi modelled Ecstasy in 1962, first in marble; the original is at the museum. A bronze version reached Mamaia with the works of art set on the coast in the 1960s. B…
On the cliff in Eforie Nord, opposite the former Neon restaurant, a bronze girl holds a flower. Ioan Kasargian worked the details of the face and the petals without making her suga…
Beside Hotel Central in Mamaia, on the grass between the promenade and the road, a young woman of limestone stands facing the sea. Cornel Medrea carved her in 1961: full forms, wit…
In Medgidia, a bronze woman plays the harp. Ion Jalea modelled her in 1933 for the ensemble dedicated to Elisabeth of Wittelsbach (Carmen Sylva), on the Casino seafront in Constanț…
Vasile Vasiliu-Falti, a sculptor from Fălticeni (a relative of the actor Grigore Vasiliu Birlic, with years of studio in Paris), modelled in bronze a seal that Constanța placed in…
Cornel Medrea carved in 1962, in travertine, a figure that stands in the sun. In 1964 it was placed in Mamaia, in the area of the Dacia Sud hotel and Perla square, together with th…
Mac Constantinescu carved in 1961 a tennis player, set a year later beside the Tomis hotel, toward the cliff. The stone holds the body in a twist, the racket ready for a backhand.…
Medrea again, 1962 again, this time in bronze: a stylized water lily, in a small basin beside the Sulina hotel in Mamaia. The water around it is for show, not for swimming. It is f…
“On the Waves” is from 1962, Cornel Medrea again, travertine again. Female figures drawn on a diagonal, as if the water were shifting their weight. It stood on the grass in Mamaia,…
Beside Hotel Pelican in Mamaia, Cornel Medrea left in 1961 a stone figure called Sunrise. It belongs to the same wave of sculptures set on the grass at the beginning of the 1960s.…
Boris Caragea cast in bronze a maternity — Rod — placed in 1964 at the Landing Stage, in Eforie Nord. Mother and child are a single volume, without poster sentimentality. Caragea i…
On Boulevard Tomis, in the park of the Oleg Danovski Opera and Ballet Theatre, Boris Caragea set in 1962 a young standing figure, without props. The sculptor (1906-1982), a member…
On the Casino seafront, Ion Jalea placed in 1937 the group that shows Queen Elisabeta - the one who signed Carmen Sylva. The boulevard bears her name, and the place is a few steps…
On Alexandru Lăpușneanu Boulevard, opposite “Andrei Șaguna” University (no. 13), stands a monument that links Constanța to nineteenth-century Transylvania. Metropolitan Andrei Șagu…
Oscar Han cast in bronze, in 1957, the engineer of the Cernavodă Bridge and of the modern harbour quay. The figure stands, three metres high, without a theatrical gesture. The site…
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