25. Icon on glass, "Saint George killing the dragon", workshop from Schei district of Brasov, second half of the 19th century, originates from the collection of the world vice-champion of bridge Coriolan Neamțu.

Размери

width 44.5 cm, height 49 cm

Описание

tempera on glaze, patinated frame, with string

ПРОИЗХОД

Coriolan Neamțu was born in 1925, in Satu-Mare, in a family of Transylvanian intellectuals. He was a graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest. His particular concern for the game of bridge allowed him to overcome professional dissatisfactions, inherent to the communist regime, and to dedicate himself passionately to bridge. He was an active promoter and organizer of the game of bridge in Romania, a tournament director, and a bridge teacher. Coriolan Neamțu wrote and edited between 1970-1983 (the year when bridge was officially banned in Romania) the magazine "Expert Bridge", printed and distributed in hundreds of copies in a quasi-underground manner. As a journalist by profession, with a column in domestic magazines and newspapers and numerous contributions to prestigious foreign magazines, he wrote a series 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 titled "The Dog, Man's Friend" in 1979, which enjoyed great success upon its release. In 2000, he published a 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 bridge champion of the IBPA in 1992 in Salsomaggiore, and the editor of the bridge column in the "Free Time" magazine, the weekly supplement of the "Free Romania" newspaper.