Emil Cioran Painting

by Paul Meijering

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$2,500

Dimensions

90.000 x 120.000 x 1.000 cm.

Title

Emil Cioran Painting

Artist

Paul Meijering

Medium

Painting - Acrylic Painting On Panel

Description

Realistic acrylic painting of the Romanian-French philosopher Emil Cioran, painted by the fine artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 120 x 90 cm and available for sale.

Emil Cioran (Rășinari, April 8, 1911 - Paris, June 20, 1995) was a Romanian-French philosopher, who published in Romanian and French. His work is known for its pervasive philosophical pessimism and antinatalism. In it he is concerned with suffering, decay, and nihilism.

In the 1930s Cioran was a sympathizer of the Iron Guard, a protofascist movement led by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, "The Captain," which agitated for a Romanian national revival. In 1934 he was a scholarship student in Berlin. In the late 1930s he settled in Paris. He lived there in the Latin Quarter with his partner Simone Boué until his death. During the 1940 entry of German troops, he threw a pack of cigarettes at French soldiers who were prisoners of war. When a German soldier pointed a gun at him he shouted "Aus Menschlichkeit. His knowledge of German came in so handy.

Cioran was influenced by the German Romantics, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and the philosophy of life (Friedrich von Schelling, Henri Bergson), but also by the Russians Lev Shestov, Vasily Rozanov and Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu. Thus it is that his style is lyrical and extroverted and his musings are mostly abstract. Death, despair, loneliness, history, music, sanctity and mysticism are often recurring themes in his French work.

Only after the fall of the communist regime was he allowed to re-enter Romania. He received recognition at a very late age.

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February 28th, 2022

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