Moscu House

MOSCU HOUSE The house belonged to the famous Moscu family from Buzău. Gheorghe (Gogu) Moscu (1867-1937) was a magistrate, lawyer and journalist, who graduated from the Faculty of Law in Bucharest. He worked as a magistrate in Focşani, Bârlad, Galaţi, Buzău, Alexandria, Călăraşi and Ploieşti, and as a lawyer in Buzău, where he was also dean of the Bar, in Bucharest and Turnu Măgurele. Gheorghe (George) Panait Moscu (1895–1972) was a pianist and painter. He studied music in Bucharest, Berlin and Paris. He performed in Paris, Bucharest and Buzău. In the period 1941-1944, together with his wife, Xenia Macovski, the sister of the academician Eugen Macovski, he founded the Moldova radio station. As a plastic artist, he created numerous landscapes and portraits, but he excelled in caricature, especially inspired by the years of the First World War. Alexandru Moscu (1896–1968) attended the School of Fine Arts in Iaşi and specialized courses in Munich. In 1938, he exhibited landscapes inspired by the Buzău area at the Dalles Hall, and in 1939, at the Paris International Exhibition, he received the silver medal. He was a teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu" and at the "Theodor Aman" Museum. Adina Paula Moscu (1908–1979) was an easel painter and graphic designer, the daughter of the magistrate Gheorghe Moscu and the writer Constanța Marino-Moscu, settled in Buzău from 1898. She attended the School of Belle-Arte in Bucharest and specialized studies in Paris. She debuted in 1926 at the Official Salon and in 1928 at the Jecu Salon in Buzău. She organized personal exhibitions in Bucharest, Paris and Buzău. She was awarded in Paris by the Academy of Belle-Arts with the Grand Medal in 1933, for a suite of landscapes from Buzău. In 1951 she obtained the State Prize. In 1950 she was appointed a teacher at the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Fine Arts Institute in Bucharest. She created portraits of important personalities of Romanian political and cultural life.