Angi Petrescu-Tipărescu

[Angela Petrescu-Tipărescu]

Born April 23, 1922, Baia de Aramă

Studies: The Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest (1945)

To open at random any book illustrated by Angi Petrescu-Tipărescu, either draped  in colors or in sober black & whites, reserves an unpredictable reaction: one can end up surrounded by crickets or cats romping around,  legendary archers testing their bravery,  Little Red Riding Hood in wonderful hues of mat colors, suave birds with scalloped necks looking for their nests, supple Scheherazades enveloped in silky textures,  happy kings and princes sending their compliments, all of them inwrought in marvelous, allegorical plans. From now on, you reader, belong to the fictional world and all explanations become paramount.

Finally, when our eyes beam with these fabulous chromatic lines, we close the book, caressing its cover and spine one more time, enrapt in soothing, wonderful memories.

Angi Petrescu-Tipărescu's illustrated masterpice, especially the one dealing with heroes of classical texts, has a clear stylistic impregnation of French tapestry, with  delicate black and white lace patterns, calmly sat into text.

Angi Petrescu-Tipărescu expanded her decorative manner beyond the illustrated books, working decorative arts, tapestries, furnishings and objects. She was set designer for three animated films ranking Julian Hermeneanu (Zâna de cerneală, 1961 ; Soarele şi trandafirul, 1965 ; Curiosul, 1969). She has exhibited in Warsaw (1955), Prague (1962), Bucharest (1963), Rome (1965).

Certainly Angi Petrescu-Tipărescu graphic work is worth more than an imperfect biography  or metaphorical explanation, but let this be a first step in this respect.

 

1959

Pagoda vieţii veşnice - (Tineretului Publishing House)

(translator Constantin Ţoiu, Natalia Bocunescu)

Oraşul cu porumbei – Elena Dragoş (Tineretului Publishing House)

1960
Prinţul fericit – Oscar Wilde (Tineretului Publishing House, the Second Edition appeared in 1966) (translator Ticu Archip)

1961

1001 de nopti : Basme arabe (2 vol.) - Eusebiu Camilar (Tineretului Publishing House)

Eu am crescut în vremea surdă - Valeri Briusov, (Literatură Universală Publishing House)

Călătorie în jurul lumii - Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Ştiinţifică Publishing House)

Grădiniţa veseliei – Alexandru Sen (Tineretului Publishing House)

Atenţie copii...! – Cicerone Theodorescu (Tineretului Publishing House)

Ce să fiu? – Vladimir Maiakovski (Tineretului Publishing House)

1962

Păcălici şi Tândaleţ – Nicolae Labiş (Tineretului Publishing House)

1963

Mékafi kalandjai/Păcălici şi Tândaleţ – Nicolae Labiş (Tineretului Publishing House)

(translator Kiss Jenö)

Possenpitz und Murrematz/Păcălici şi Tândaleţ – Nicolae Labiş (Tineretului Publishing House)

(translator Lotte Berg)

1964

Trenuţul - Mioara Cremene (Tineretului Publishing House)

1965

Poveşti – Fraţii Grimm (Tineretului Publishing House)

(translator Dan Faur)

A doua carte a Ralucăi – Victor Tulbure (Tineretului Publishing House)

1966

Elefanţi în rochiţe – Mircea Sântimbreanu (Tineretului Publishing House)

Mesék – Grimm Testvérek (Tineretului Publishing House)

1967

A treia carte a Ralucăi – Victor Tulbure (Tineretului Publishing House)

1968

Luna în creştere – Rabindranath Tagore (Tineretului Publishing House)

(translator George Dan)

Scufita roşie - Charles Perrault, (Tineretului Publishing House)

A boldog herceg - Oscar Wilde, (Tineretului Publishing House)

1970

Dicţionar cu poezii : pentru cei mai buni copii! – Victor Tulbure (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

Urciorul de aur – E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1972

Întoarcerea lui Ulise în Itaca  – Iulia Murnu  (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

Fairy tales and legends from Romania - Ioana Sturza (Twayne Publishing House)

Limba germană - Manual Experimental Pt. Clasa VII - Anul V Studiu - Livia Stefanescu, Eva Krug

1973

Sora soarelui frumoasă – Valeria Boiculesi (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1974

Omul de piatră - Ion Creangă (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

Motanul încălţat - Charles Perrault  (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1975

Floarea Deltei răsfăţată – Aurora Conţescu (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1976

Peripeţiile Alisei în Ţara Minunilor - Lewis Carroll (Ion Creangă Publishing House)
(translator Frida Papadache)

1977

Cântece de leagăn pentru puii animalelor – Victor Sivetidis (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

(translator Victor Tulbure)

Basme Mongole - traducere: Elena Vasile (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

König Drosselbart – Jacon und Wilhem Grimm (Kriterion Verlag)

1978

Cuibul din inimă – Dumitru Trancă (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1979

Urechile lui Midas – Anca Balaci (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1982

Voinicel de păpădie – Vasile Dima (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1983

Clelia: Evocari din istoria legendara a Romei - Anca Balaci (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1985

The Stoneman – Ion Creangă (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

Eine Tanne ist kein Hornissennest - Hedi Hauser (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

Welt der Märchen – Ion Vlasiu  (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1986

Umbra poveştilor – Marta Cozmin (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1987

Poveşti şi snoave chinezeşti (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1988

Copii soarelui – Nicuşor Constantinescu (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1989

Fröchliche flunkereien – Hans Mokka (Ion Creangă Publishing House)
Basme multicolore - Imants Ziedonis, Ed. Ion Creanga

Toată ţara-i şcoala mea - Andrei Ciurunga (Ion Creangă Publishing House)

1991
Poezii - Vasile Alecsandri, (Ion Creangă Publishing House)
Copacul cu stele - Elisabeta Novac (Ion Creangă Publishing House)