Paciurea Dimitrie (1873-1932, born in Bucharest). Romanian sculptor. He studied at the Crafts School in Bucharest (1890-1894), then in Paris (1896-1900). He first exhibited in 1894, at the Exhibition of the Living Artists. He participated in the Official exhibitions, in the exhibitions of some associations such as "The Artistic Circle", or "The Artistic Youth". In 1919 he was one of the founder members of the "Romanian Art" Society. He exhibited alone, or with Cornel Medrea, Gabriel Popescu, Iosif Steurer. The National Art Museum organized a posthumous exhibition in 1957. Abroad, he took part at exhibitions in Munich, Brussels, Vienna. He was a teacher at the Music and Dramatic Art Institute in Bucharest (1903), and at the Fine Arts School (1909). As a curator of the "Theodor Aman Memorial Museum", he used one of the annexe buildings as a studio; many artists have used the same studio, throughout the ages. He recepted several influences, among which the temptation of Symbolist composition, the refined modelling of Impressionist sculpture, the decorative alternance of curve lines, typical to the "Modern Style", by means of which he valued his own affective and spiritual structure. He left aside the Academistic trends, instead he alluded to a Byzantine or Renaissance patrimony, he amplified the senses of reality, by the force of memorable mythical visions. Free of any influences, he was a pioneer of surrealistic art. His work comprises his "Chimaera", several portraits (B.P. Hasdeu, Gheorghe Petrascu, Stefan Luchian, Beethoven, Ibsen), children’s heads, compositions; the ... of the "Antipa" Natural Science Museum, an unachieved project of a monument dedicated to the Union of the Romanian Principalities (1905).