Romanian Academy: The loss of Dan Haulica deprives academic community of intellectual life benchmark

The Romanian Academy mourns the loss of literary and art critic Dan Haulica, saying his death deprives the academic community of a benchmark of intellectual life.

'The academic community learned with deep sorrow about the death on August 17, after a dire pain, of literary and art critic Dan Haulica, a man of generous culture and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. (...) His passing away means a loss of an outstanding member of the academic community, a benchmark of our intellectual life. May God rest his soul,' reads the obituary sent to AGERPRES on Monday by the press bureau of the Romanian Academy.

Dan Haulica, born on February 7, 1932 in Iasi (northeastern Romania) graduated from high school in Iasi, then from the Faculty of Letters there, and then from the Faculty of Arts History in Bucharest. After graduation, he taught as a lecturer, then as a professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest.

Since 1963, he worked as an editor of the XX Century periodic, one of the best cultural periodicals in Romania before 1989. After 1990, he has been a member of the executive board of UNESCO, Romania's ambassador to UNESCO until 2001, and Romania's representative at the Latin Union.

An encyclopaedic spirit with a high capacity of sensing and describing connections and interferences between ideas, Dan Haulica was the author of several monographs dedicated to great world artists; among these, 'Brancusi, or the Anonymity of Genius,' Picasso — Centenary Celebration,' and two volumes of 'Romanian Painters.'

He also wrote on major topics of culture; works in this category include 'Critic and Culture,' 'Spiritual Geographies,' 'The Nostalgia of Synthesis,' 'The Dimension of Modern Art.'...