133. Icon on wood, "The Resurrection of the Lord", Russian school, second half of the 19th century, originates from the collection of the World Vice-Champion of Bridge Coriolan Neamțu, rare piece

Размери

width 29.5 cm, height 35.5 cm

Описание

tempera and gold leaf on wood

ПРОИЗХОД

Coriolan Neamțu was born in 1925 in Satu-Mare, in a family of Transylvanian intellectuals. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. His special concern for the game of bridge allowed him to overcome the professional dissatisfactions inherent to the communist regime and devote himself passionately to bridge. He was an active promoter and organizer of the game of bridge in Romania, tournament director and bridge teacher. Between 1970-1983 (the year when bridge was officially banned in Romania), Coriolan Neamțu wrote and edited the magazine "Expert Bridge", printed and distributed in hundreds of copies almost clandestinely. A journalist by profession, having a column in local magazines and newspapers and many contributions to prestigious foreign magazines, he wrote a number of bridge literature works: "Competitive Bridge" (1973), "Fun Bridge" (1982), "Start Bridge" (1990), "Humorous Bridge" (1991) and "Bridge Conventions" (1991). Also a great animal lover, the author published a book entitled "The Dog, Man's Friend" in 1979, which was very successful when it was released. In 2000, he published the volume of maxims and thoughts "Restitutio in absurdum". He was a member of the Jockey Club Romania, the International Association of Bridge Journalists, the vice world champion of the IBPA bridge in 1992 in Salsomaggiore and the editor of the bridge column in the "Free Time" magazine, the weekly supplement of the "Free Romania" newspaper.