Arthur Verona (1868-1946)

Arthur Gargarumin Verona was a Romanian painter.

Born on August 25, 1868, he studies high-school in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and was then sent by his parents to military school in Vienna. He graduated in 1891 and was appointed officer in the Austrian dragoons.

However he was more attracted by painting, which he had taken up even while he was in military school. His first painting "The night patrol" was exposed in Vienna in 1889. Arthur Verona completele gave up his military career in 1894. He was attracted by the Sezession movement in Munich and from 1895 to 1896 studied painting with Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.