Dimitrie Florian (1899 - 1979) - Balchik

Florian, the painter of the shores of the Black Sea, the hermit who shook his feet from the dust of the capital and who made his quiet nest between the sea and the lake.

Only in these lands is he allowed to talk to the sea, and only he understands the story that the waves of the glare that roll towards the shore, carrying through the foam rays stolen from the sun and brought before his eyes from the infinite distances.

He is not disturbed by the quarrels and gossip of the Bucharest cafes where so many sacred things are desecrated. brought out of ephemeral currents.

He does not want to know how big his lake is, here two steps away, with their thousands of aspects. Around them he spends days of contemplation and work.

Happy, when the emotion felt in the changing moment of a happy view can catch her and lay her on the canvas and even happier when such emotions are seen by the eye of the one who looks at her work, the child of her soul.

That is why the sea in the sunrise, or in the west, on a clear or stormy day, in silence or turmoil, the sea in its endless appearances is his, who knew how to stand out in his anchorage hut.