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Andrei Gabriel PLESU
Philosopher, Art Historian
Former Minister
Born: August 23, 1948, in Bucharest
Married, in 1972, to Catrinel Maria Lacramioara. Two sons, Matei and Mihai
Studies
- 1966-1971 - Faculty of Plastic Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
"Nicolae Grigorescu", Bucharest, Department of History and Theory of
Art
- 1975-1977 and 1983-1984 - scholarship "Alexander von Humboldt"
in Bonn and Heidelberg. Lectured on culture and arts in Romania in Bonn, Dortmund, Dusseldorf
and Freiburg
- 1980 - PhD in Art History with the dissertation "The Feeling of Nature
in the
European Culture"
Professional Career
- 1971-1979 - Scientific Researcher with the Institute of Art History
of the Romanian Academy
- 1980-1982 - Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Bucharest,
for Modern Romanian Art and History of Art Criticism
- 1982 - excluded on political grounds from the University
- 1984-1989 - referent at the Romanian Plastic Artists Union and documentalist
at the Institute of Art History, Bucharest
- 1989 - expelled from Bucharest, for political reasons, and exiled to
Tescani, Bacau County, as librarian of "George Enescu" Memorial House
- December 1989-October 1991 - Minister of Culture in the Government led by
Petre Roman
- since 1990 - professor of religion philosophy at the Faculty of
Philosophy, University of Bucharest
- February-July 1992 - visiting researcher at the Institute of Advanced
Studies, Berlin
- Since January 1994 - Rector of the "New Europe" College, the
first Romanian institute of advanced studies
- October 1994 -Una's Lecturer at the University of California at
Berkeley
- December 1997-January 2000 - Minister of the Foreign Affairs as
independent at the proposal of Democratic Party
- Since 2000 - member of the National Commission for the Study of Former
Security Archives
Publishing Activity
- Debut in 1968
- Articles and studies in Romanian and foreign publications as Amfiteatru, Contemporanul, Romania Literara,
Luceafarul, Secolul XX, Romania Libera, Viata Romaneasca, Plai cu Boi, Art Press, Cahiers
de l'Herne, Reprresentations, Die Zeit, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, Suddeutsche Zeitung and others
- 1993 - Founding Member and Director of the weekly "DILEMA" (now
founding director)
Books
- "Calatorie in lumea formelor" (Travel to the World of Forms), Meridiane
Publishing House, Bucharest, 1974
- "Pitoresc si melancolie. O analiza a sentimentului naturii in cultura
europeana" (Picturesque and Melancholy. An Analysis of Feeling of
Nature in the European Culture",
Univers Publishing House, Bucharest, 1980, republished at Humanitas Publishing
House, 1992
- "Francesco Guardi", Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1981
- "Ochiul si lucrurile" (The Eye and the Things), Meridiane Publishing
House, Bucharest, 1986
- "Minima Moralia. Elemente pentru o etica a intervalului" (Minima
Moralia. Elements for an Interval Ethics), Cartea Romaneasca Publishing
House, Bucharest, 1988, republished at Humanitas Publishing House, 1994. (translations
into French 1990, German 1992, Swedish 1995)
- "Jurnalul de la Tescani" (The Diary of Tescani), Humanitas Publishing
House, Bucharest, 1993
- "Limba pasarilor" (The Language of Birds), Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1994
- "Chipuri si masti ale tranzitiei" (Faces and Masks of the
Transition), Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996
- "Despre ingeri" (On Angels), Humanitas Publishing House,
Bucharest, 2003
Affiliations
- Since 1997 - Member of the World Academy of Art and Science
Prizes and Awards
- 1980 - Prize for Art Critic of the Plastic Artists Union of Romania
- 1980 - Prize for Essay, Romanian Writers Association of Bucharest
- 1990 - Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
- 1991 - Grand Prize of the revue Athenaeum, Bacau
- 1993 - Prize "New Europe", Berlin
- 1993 - Prize of "Flacara" Revue, Bucharest
- 1994 - Prize for Essay of the Romanian Writers Union of Romania
- 1994 - Prize "Book of the Year" for "Limba pasarilor"
(Birds Language), Cluj-Napoca
- 1995 - Prize for Essay of the Writers Union of the Republic of Moldova
- 1996 - Prize for Essay, Romanian Writers Association of Romania
- 1996 - Prize of "Cuvantul" Revue, Bucharest
- 1996 - Prize of the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
- 2002 - "Joseph Bech" Prize for merits in promoting the European
Unity
Foreign Languages
- English, French and German (fluent)
Address
- National Council for Studying Former Security's Archives (CNSAS)
2-4, Dragoslavele St (Near Victoria Square),
Sector 1, 78132 Bucharest, Phone: +40-1-223.0248, 223.0249, Fax:
+40-1-222.1108
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