„Margareta Sterian” High School of Arts

„MARGARETA STERIAN” HIGH SCHOOL OF ARTS In 1957, the Music School was established in Buzău, with the status of an elementary school. It was later transformed into a high school, but returned to the status of an elementary school in 1978. In 1990, it returned to the status of high school, and in 1999, in addition to the music and plastic arts departments, the theatre section was also introduced. In 1893, Alexandru Marghiloman laid the foundation stone of the boarding school that would bear his name, but which today has become the premises of the High School of Arts of Buzău. Starting from September 2003, the high school received the name of the great artist and writer from Buzău, Margareta Sterian. The painter and writer Margareta Sterian was born on 16th March 1897, in Buzău, being the daughter of the Jewish merchant Iancu Vainberg. She attended high school at the Evangelical School of Bucharest, where she had Ioan Slavici as her Romanian language teacher. She then studied painting, decorative art and art history in Paris, at Ranson Academy and École du Louvre. In the summer of 1929, within the Sociology, Ethics and Politics Seminar of the University of Bucharest, she took part in the monographic campaign of Drăguş, led by Professor Dimitrie Gusti. In the same year, in December, she exhibited six portraits of peasants and children of Drăguş. At the artist's first personal exhibition, at Mozart Hall of Bucharest, she exhibited landscapes, still life and 30 works from the series of portraits "Children from Drăguş". In 1937, the artist received the bronze medal for painting at the International Exhibition of Arts and Industry in Paris. Along with landscapes, portraits and still life, her work also consists of decorative art, ceramics, book illustration and fresco. For the plastic work, she received the Prize of the Ministry of Arts for painting in 1930 and the Special Prize of the Romanian Artists' Union in 1985. Since 1993, the National Art Museum of Bucharest has been awarding the "Margareta Sterian" prize every year for the best exhibition of the year.