Edited by Elisabeta MORAITAKI. 2011, 232 p., 8.6 E
ISBN 978-8319-74-5
Stephan Eleutheriadis (b. 1922) a graduate of the Bucharest Faculty of Architecture (1948) was attracted to painting from an early age. Forced by the communist regime to leave Romania in 1950, he lived in Greece for a short period of time and then he settled in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. His achievements, in both architecture and painting, received prestigious awards in Brazil and in other countries.
The Watchmaker’s Son evokes memories of the years spent in Romania, a country to which he remained deeply attached. The leitmotiv of the book, as well as of his paintings, is the town of Mangalia. Although wrtitten after more than fifty years, he succeeds in rendering the provincial atmosphere of the town in which Romanians, Greeks, Turks and Bulgarians lived in the interwar period. The volume is illustrated with forty drawings by the author.