Octav Băncilă
Octav Băncilă | |
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| Born | 4 February 1872 Corni, Botoșani, Romania |
| Died | 3 April 1944 (aged 72) Bucharest, Romania |
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| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Realism |
| Relatives | Sofia 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).