Subiect: Where the Arts and Archaeology Meet Each Other. New Data About Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna, One Century After “The Missing Year” from the Artist’s Biography (1917-2017)
The archives of Frobenius Institute from Frankfurt am Mainz, Germany reveal important and unique clues about an unknown period experienced by the artist Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna (1886-1975) one hundred years ago during the First World War, as prisoner of war in a German internment camp (but also as an protégé and close collaborator of the German scientist Leo Frobenius), at Mănăstirea, on the Mostiştea Valley, today in Călăraşi County, nearby the Danube. The paper sheds new light on the condition of the artist in war, on the relationship between the archaeology, ethnography, anthropology and the fine arts, and clearly demonstrates that many of the late masterpieces of SchweitzerCumpăna (“The boy with gas buckets”, “The carpenters` lunch”, “Countrywoman with distaff” etc.) are sequels of some sketches already experienced by him decades before, during the war camp period.
