Sava Henția

Sava Henția
Sava Henția (1 February 1848, Sebeșel - 21 February 1904, Sebeșel) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian painter, decorator and illustrator. Biography He was one of fourteen surviving children of a priest. In 1862, after finishing his primary education, he was apprenticed to an uncle, who taught him how to retouch photographs.Brief biography
@ the Sebeș website. The following year, he caught

typhoid fever

and the

quinine

that was used to treat it damaged his hearing. His work with photographs encouraged him to pursue a career in art. From 1865 to 1870, he studied at the
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