Octav Băncilă

Octav Băncilă
Born(1872-02-04)4 February 1872
Died3 April 1944(1944-04-03) (aged 72)
Bucharest, Romania
Education
Alma mater
Known forPainting
MovementRealism
RelativesSofia Nădejde
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Octav Băncilă (Romanian pronunciation: [okˈtav bənˈt͡ʃilə]; 4 February 1872 – 3 April 1944) was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ioan Nădejde (an atheist and socialist thinker, editor of the magazine Contemporanul).