Through his early school years, George Dumitresco won several national art contests and in 1932 was awarded Bucharest's Great National Prize,
for his painting. At young age, he experimented with wood engraving.
In 1947, he graduated as Doctor of Medicine and specialised as surgeon.
In 1956, he was a founder of the "Circle of Doctors Artists -
Ion Țuculescu",
but in the same year the Romanian
"Securitate"
arrested him for alleged "conspiracy against national security".
Tortured and detained in awful conditions, he retained his moral integrity and remained a "non denouncer", a quality which very few of those
that have been put through the communist jails could be proud of.
Freed from jail, Georges Dumitresco pursued art studies while continuing to practice medicine, in Bucharest.
In 1959, he was named Chief of Bucharest Hospitals Clinics and in 1966 he obtained a Diploma at the Popular School of Art of Romania.
Between 1964 and 1969, he displayed his artwork at several collective and personal exhibitions. His last solo exhibition in Bucharest took place in 1969.
On 13 September 1969, he left Romania, describing this passage in his book "Esto Memor" (pg. 108), published posthumously in 2008, as follows:
"My aunt, born Rosen, a doctor of pharmacy, separated from my uncle, returned to Vienna, her hometown, where she had a pharmacy, for two generations, in Brunnerplatz.
The entire family had disappeared in the Nazi extermination camps, and the pharmacy was run by a manager. Respecting the promise, she had made to me, before leaving
Romania to return to Vienna, she handed over the sum of 10,000 dollars to a very influential intermediary, who was going to obtain the right to expatriate our couple,
including the child."
Passing through Vienna and then Paris, he settled in Switzerland. Initially he practiced in Valais, then in Yverdon-les-Bains as doctor at the Paillard company and
later on in Vallorbe, where he established medical rooms, at the invitation of the local Council.
Whilst in the Diaspora, Georges Dumitresco remained involved in promoting Romanian culture and tradition.
A great scholar, writer, philosopher, artist, doctor, he was member of the Association of writers of Vaud, the International Federation of French language writers,
of the Association of Romanian writers and the World Union of writers-doctors. His artwork became the subject of many
articles and publications.
In 1978, he was the founder of the "Jura Artistique", Vallorbe (1978 - 2002), an organization that involves both local Swiss artists and exiled Romanian artists.
Georges Dumitresco extended cordial invites to Romanian based artists, providing them with the opportunity to mingle in "the free world".
Through the years he participated in twenty annual exhibitions
and in addition he held personal exhibitions in Switzerland and in Romania, as well as collective exhibitions in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, USA and in Lebanon.
Embassies, churches and various cultural institutions throughout Europe purchased his artworks.
Georges Dumitresco authored and illustrated over thirty books of prose and poetry and in 1998 he published
"Triptic",
a trilingual poetic Anthology in Romanian, French and Italian, containing 142 poems.
The book was illustrated by 80 of his paintings reproductions.
In recognition for his excellence, the Romanian and the Swiss Post office issued
special editions of postcards
and postal envelopes, decorated with his paintings.
In his art, Georges Dumitresco utilised diverse techniques: oil, watercolour, ink, monotype, acrylic, "pointe seche", linocut, tapestry,
vitrail and a personal style named "xeropictogramme".
After retirement, having miraculously overcome a series of cardiac troubles, George Dumitresco remained more active than ever,
devoting his entire time to poetry and painting.
Georges Dumitresco past away in Lausanne, on 21 October 2008.
, the Head of the
Fine Arts Academy of the city of Iaşi
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