He began working on the group of sculptures that are known as ―Bird in Space‖ – simple forms representing birds in flight. The works are based on his earlier ―Maiastra‖. In the Romanian folklore Maiastra is a beautiful golden bird which foretells the future and cures the blind. Over the following 21 years, Brancusi would make around 20 versions of the ―birds‖, out of marble and bronze. Edward Steichen, a prominent photographer, purchased one of the ―Birds‖ in 1926 and shipped it to the United States. However the customs officers did not accept‖the bird‖ as a work of art and placed a duty upon its import as an industrial item. However, Brancusi‘s work became popular in the U.S, and he visited America several times during his life. Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him mission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brancusi went to India to complete the plans and begin the construction, the Maharajah was away and then lost interest in the project when he returned. In 1938, he finished the World War I Monument in Targu Jiu, where he had spent much of his childhood. ―Table of Silence‖, ―Gate of Kiss‖ and ―The Endless Column‖ commemorates the courage and sacrifice of Romanian civilians who in 1916 fought off a German invasion. The restoration of these monuments was spearheaded by the World Monuments Fund and was completed in 2004. In 1956 Life magazine reported:‖ Wearing white pajamas and a yellow gnomelike cap, Brancusi today hobbles about his studio tenderly caring for and communing with the silent host of fish birds, heads and endless columns which he created.‖ In 1952, Brancusi became a French citizen in order to make the caregivers his heirs, and to bequeath his studio and its contents to the Musee National d‘Art Moderne in Paris.
MIHAI EMINESCU. Fundamental value and perennial Romanian spirituality. Mihai Eminescu (born on January 15th, 1850,in Botosani d. June 15th, 1889, Bucharest) Romanian poet, novelist and journalist, is appreciated by the Romanian people and literary writers as the most valuable Romanian writer of the Romantic literature, named " the paragon of Romanian poetry ". It is the seventh of eleven children of George Eminovici, originated from a Romanian peasant family from Northern Moldavia, and Raluca Eminovici‘s , the paternal line, descended from Transylvania and Bukovina, who emigrated because of serf exploitation, military obligations and religious persecution. Between 1858 and 1866, Eminescu intermittently attended National Hauptschule school (Eastern Orthodox Primary School) at Chernautsi, between 1860 and 1861 being also registered at Ober Gymnasium, the German school of that city. From 1869 until 1872 Eminescu was a student in Vienna. He attended as an "extraordinary auditor" the Faculty of Philosophy and Law, but he also participated to courses of other faculties. Then, from 1872 to 1874 he was an 'ordinary' student in Berlin, benefiting from a grant/ scholarship, provided to take a doctorate in philosophy. The poet attended it with sufficient regularity two semesters, but failed to appear for exams. Therefore, in 1874,he returned to his country, occupying, in turn, more jobs, such as director of the Central Library in Iaşi, substitute teacher, school inspector for the counties of Iasi and Vaslui, editor of the Courier newspaper of that city. Eminescu's literary activities began in 1866. In January 12th/24th Aron Pumnul(the Fist), the Romanian language teacher, dies.
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