Medi Dinu
Romanian painter
Margareta "Medi" Dinu, née Wechsler (January 4, 1909 [O.S. December 22, 1908] – July 18, 2016) was a Romanian classical painter of Jewish origin.
Early life
Margareta Wechsler Dinu was born in Brezoi, Vâlcea County, the daughter of a Jewish accountant, Daniel Wechsler, and a violin player, Amalia Hirschfeld.
Due to the rise in power of the Iron Guard, at the age of 8, she was forced to leave her hometown of Brezoi and in the next few years lived in several cities: Bucharest, Târgoviște, Cluj, Oradea, Râmnicu Vâlcea. She was spared deportation due to her father's veteran status. Medi pursued her studies and graduated from the bourgeois "Choisy-Mangru" high-school in Bucharest. There she learned her fourth language, French, additionally to Romanian, German, and Hungarian. Encouraged by her arts teacher, painter Costin Petrescu, she continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, under Ipolit Strâmbu and Jean Alexandru Steriadi. At the same time, she studied at the Faculty of Mathematics under Dan Barbilian and the Faculty of Philosophy under Dimitrie Gusti and Nae Ionescu.
Career
Dinu debuted in 1932 at the "Official Salon of White and Black" exhibition in Bucharest, with a self-portrait. She joined the Syndicate of Artists a year later, which enabled her to travel to Balchik, a meeting place of the (mostly Jewish) avant-garde artists of the time.
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