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Graphic artist Dan Erceanu, a former director of the National Library of Romania, has died at the age of 77.
Considered a sage of Romanian graphic art, Dan Erceanu graduated from the Bucharest Institute of Fine Arts in 1969, class of Vasile Kazar and Ion State.
Throughout his career he received numerous national and international awards and had 18 solo exhibitions in Bucharest, Brasov, Iasi, Munich, Wurzburg, Heidelberg, Tel Aviv, Boston, New York.
He also participated in international jury-rated biennials: Florence, Ljubljana, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Venice, Friedrichstadt, Heidelberg, Krakow.
Erceanu was the organizer of the first exhibition "Podul" of the Plastic Artists Union's Engraving workshop - 1974 and designed sets and costumes for theater performances.
He also authored the graphics for numerous volumes put out by various publishing houses in the country, movie and theater posters.
His works are kept in Romanian museums, as well as in various private collections in Romania and abroad, such as Germany and the US.
