Lascăr Vorel (August 19, 1879—February 1918) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter whose style was linked to Expressionism.
Born to Czech-Romanian parents in Iaşi, Vorel was the great-grandson of Anton Vorel, a well-known pharmacist and herbalist who had arrived in Moldavia from Bohemia. He spent much of his early life in Piatra Neamţ, where his brothers Constantin and Tudor were to inherit the Vorel pharmacist business (being the last genera...
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Lascăr Vorel (August 19, 1879—February 1918) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter whose style was linked to Expressionism.
Born to Czech-Romanian parents in Iaşi, Vorel was the great-grandson of Anton Vorel, a well-known pharmacist and herbalist who had arrived in Moldavia from Bohemia. He spent much of his early life in Piatra Neamţ, where his brothers Constantin and Tudor were to inherit the Vorel pharmacist business (being the last generation to own the practice before its nationalization by the Communist regime).
Lascăr Vorel studied in the German Empire, where he subsequently lived a long part of his life. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was taught by Franz Stuck, and developed a style influenced by the Vienna Secession and other branches of Art Nouveau.
In time, he adopted an artistic vision which owed inspiration to Paul Cézanne's geometrical guidelines. Although he refused to join any particular group of artists, his work shares common traits with...
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