Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eugen Drăguțescu


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Winged Blades Godric  03:44, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Eugen Drăguțescu

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Uncited for ten years. And searches did not turn up the type of in-depth coverage needed to show they pass WP:GNG, and nothing to show they meet WP:NARTIST.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:41, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete We need citations to verify, let alone show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:31, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   01:25, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   01:25, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment Searching for "Eugen Dragutescu" in the Dacoromanica archive of Bucharest Library produces 12 results, with in-depth coverage, much of it in high-quality books and periodicals (notice for instance Revista Fundațiilor Regale). I myself have used a serious work of scholarship mentioning him in at least one article. Here's some more in-depth coverage. Drăguțescu is not non-notable, just forgotten. Dahn (talk) 22:00, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - in addition to the above, I would note that, in 2014, Romania's state mint issued a commemorative coin featuring Drăguțescu. While that's not prima facie evidence of notability, it is one of those things - if a sovereign state decides to mint a coin honoring someone, that person is very likely to be notable. - Biruitorul Talk 20:59, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:19, 7 May 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * I venture to speculate that one of the reasons why Drăguțescu is less studied today is because he was (marginally?) involved with the fascist regime of 1940, and, while others were able to recover from this and were even official communist artists (Alexandru Ciucurencu falls under this category), he fled abroad. Apparently, he also hid his involvement from his colleagues in the diaspora, or they chose to forget it -- note for instance that he drew a portrait of Benjamin Fondane, who was as opposed to fascism as anyone can possibly be. But that said, he was very predominantly covered in sources of 1940, some of which are just now being made available to the public. I went ahead and read the (aforementioned) article in Revista Fundațiilor, which I now used in expanding another article. It confirms indirectly that Drăguțescu was quite heavily promoted under fascism, and that his work was featured in the top national exhibitions of the day; the author of the piece identifies him as one of the rising artists under the fascist regime. His contribution there is also covered by Universul, whose staff chronicler called his drawings "very beautiful" and reproduced his self-portrait (on page 6). I think this also constitutes significant coverage, as controversial and blurry as the matter still is. Dahn (talk) 13:57, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep The article can be expanded with material from the Romanian version of the article, which cites a monograph. Mduvekot (talk) 20:00, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:15, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep -- the coin is legit; see for example:
 * Eugen Dragutescu artist was born on May 19, 1914 in Iasi and died in Rome in 1993. Although his designs were popular in the country after the communist regime in Romania finally left, moving to the Netherlands and then in Italy. It became famous abroad for his illustrations of books, especially in Shakespeare, but the country remained almost unknown.
 * Source: "National Bank issues a new coin". This is highly suggestive of notability. Additional sources are likely to exist in Romanian. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:51, 14 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - Obviously I can't verify most of the sources myself, since I'm American and thus only allowed to barely speak one language, but the Romanian article is plenty enough for me to want to err on the side of preservation. Timothy Joseph Wood  12:54, 18 May 2017 (UTC)


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