Stefan Potop – „Artistul Vasile Craita Mandra”

The painter Ștefan Potop was born in Tazlău, Neamț County, in 1960. He attended the Art High School in Bacău and the Faculty of Fine Arts "George Enescu" in Iași, class of 1987, with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, painting, restoration. He is a teacher at the "Victor Brauner" Art High School in Piatra Neamț and president of the Neamț Branch of the Union of Visual Artists in Romania. His works have been the subject of personal and group exhibitions, in the country and abroad: Piatra Neamț, Iași, Bacău, Bucharest, Chisinau, Venice, Prague or Brussels.

„Almost the entire artistic career of Ștefan Potop, a renowned German painter, at the full maturity of his creative resources, is focused on the most accurate and subtle understanding of the particularities and expressive values of the human figure. A long essay exercise in the rehabilitation of a genre and an artistic practice that made an era in universal painting everywhere and at all times - the art of portraiture ", says the art critic Corneliu Antim.