Nicolae Vermont (1866-1932) - House interior

He was born in Bacau in the family of Professor Iosif Grünberg (pseudonym Vermont [vert mont = green mountain] is the German translation of the name Grünberg [grün Berg = green mountain]). He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, with Theodor Aman, being the first Jewish student of this institution, then at Munich and at Paris. Hostile to academic conformity, Vermont joined the renewal movement of the group of independent painters, being among the founding members of the societies "Ileana" and "Artistic Youth", in which he exhibited regularly.

In landscape painting, related as a vision to Nicolae Grigorescu, Vermont left pictures from Campulung and from Oltenia, of a pure and delicate lyricism, capitalizing on both the spontaneity and acuity of the observation, as well as the virtuosity of the drawing. Attracted by composition, he excelled in genre painting inspired by the lives of ordinary people, which he painted with a lot of emotional warmth ("Emigrants", "Coşarul", "Bragagiul"). He was also influenced by the style of the Munich painter Fritz von Uhde.

In his creation in recent years, he has been inclined to satisfy the taste of a picturesque amateur audience. His engraving works are executed with great finesse.

His brother was the translator and astronomer Bernard Varvara Vermont, and his sister was the actress Lea Vermont Fan, the mother of the French-Romanian actress Marioara-Aristița Ventura.