Stefan Pelmus

Place: Valea Calugareasca

Born: 1949

Biography:

Stefan Pelmus is a contemporary Romanian painter born on August 19, 1949, in Valea Calugareasca. He studied under Ion Salisteanu and Ilie Pavel and graduated from the Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute in Bucharest. A member of the Romanian Artists Association since 1980, Pelmus' latest exhibition was in October 2006 at the Vernescu House in Bucharest. He has been exhibited in museums of Romania, France, Germany, Israel, Canada, Austria, Chile, and Brazil, including five solo exhibitions. In 1994 he won the 'Gh Patrascu' award and the special award 'Gh Theodorescu', and in 1995, the Uniunea Artistilor Plastici din Romania (Union of Romanian Plastic Artists) gave him an award for painting. He is regarded as one of Romania's foremost contemporary artists.