Muzeul Storck
The Storck Museum
The house was built in 1913 (according to the plan
made by architect
Alexandru Clavel, in the style of the
English-Norman houses, with visible bars) for
Frederic Storck (from the famous family of
sculptors) and his wife, the painter Cecilia
Cutescu-Storck.
The photography catches the inside of the house,
giving it the double statute of museum-workshop.
Influenced by the Byzantine paintings and by the
works of Puvis de Chavannes, it opens in Romania the
way for the laic mural painting art. The first
paintings, dating from 1914-1915 decorate the walls
and the ceiling of his own house. The compositions
are large, covering great surfaces, dominated by
graphic and made in an encaustic technique. The
colors are discreet, the scenery is left only as
background, and in the center of the composition is
the man. The scenes are not set in certain time or
geographical place, but they remind of the Tahitian
period of Gauguin. The kind of intellectualized,
symbolist, decorative painting.
Cecilia Cutescu-Storck painted later the hall of the
Marmorosch-Blank Bank, the lecture room of the
Economic Science Academy, the ceiling of a room in
the Royal Palace. In 1937 she will make the fresco
of the Romanian Pavilion from the Universal
Exhibition in Paris.
