Stefan_Pelmus
Ştefan Pelmuş is a contemporary Romanian painter born August 19, 1949, in Valea Calugareasca. Pelmus studied under Ion Salisteanu si Ilie Pavel and is a graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute in Bucharest where he currently lives and works. A member of the Romanian Artists Association since 1980, Pelmus' latest exhibition was in October 2006 at the Vernescu House in Bucharest.
Pelmus has been exhibited in museums of Romania, France, Germany, Israel, Canada, Austria, Chile and Brazil, including five solo exhibitions. In 1994 he won the "Gh Patrascu" award and the special award "Gh Theodorescu", and in 1995, the Uniunea Artistilor Plastici din Romania (Union of Romanian Plastic Artists) gave him an award for painting. . He is regarded as one of Romania's foremost contemporary artists.