ArtZevina Ada
Main achievement
Visual artist. He was part of the generation of painters trained within the Romanian school of painting
About
Ada Zevin, a renowned visual artist and art critic from the Republic of Moldova, was born on September 3, 1918, in Chișinău, into a family of Jewish educators. She began her studies at the Jeanne d'Arc High School in Chișinău, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest (1938-1940), where she studied painting with Professor Francisc Șirato, forming friendships with artists such as Dimitrie Sevastian and Mihai Grecu. Returning to Bessarabia in 1940, she continued at the Republican School of Fine Arts in Chișinău, and after the war, during which she was evacuated to Kalmykia and Georgia, she graduated from the V.I. Surikov Institute in Moscow (1947-1949) and the I.E. Repin Institute in Saint Petersburg (1949-1953) with magna cum laude honors. Her original style combines French and Romanian post-expressionism with elements of Moldovan folk art, characterized by color harmony and expressive drawing. Since 1953, Ada Zevin has been a scientific researcher, publishing articles on fine arts, artistic heritage, and folk art, and between 1953-1973 she taught at the "A. Plămădeală" High School of Fine Arts in Chișinău. A member of the Union of Fine Artists since 1956, she participated in republican and international exhibitions, including in Montreal (1966), Bucharest (1996), and under the auspices of the UN (2001). She organized solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Art in Chișinău (1960, 1970, 1980, 2003) and other venues, and her works, such as "House with Yellow Gates," "Still Life with Anemones," or "Gaudeamus," are found in collections in Australia, Canada, Israel, Russia, and other countries. In 1998 she was decorated Knight of the Order of the Republic, and in 2018 the National Bank of Moldova issued a commemorative coin for her birth centenary. Ada Zevin profoundly marked Moldovan visual arts through her artistic, didactic, and theoretical contributions, being a symbol of the generation formed in the Romanian school of painting. She passed away on September 23, 2005, in Chișinău, leaving a valuable legacy in the national heritage, celebrated through retrospective exhibitions and publications such as the catalogs from 1979, 1983, and 2003.
