(b Bucharest, 20 Aug 1887; d Bucharest, 15 Nov 1965). Romanian painter and sculptor. From 1906 to 1908 he attended the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. In the autumn of 1908 he transferred to the Fine Arts School, also in Bucharest. On completing his studies in 1912 he visited Florence, attracted by Renaissance art. He returned to Romania in 1915, passing through Z?rich, where he met Marcel Janco and Tristan Tzara. In 1919-21 he revisited Florence, attending the engraving courses of Camillo Innocenti (1871-1961) at the Accademia di Belle Arti. In 1922 he returned to Romania and held his first one-man exhibition at the Fine Arts Trade Unions Hall in Bucharest. In 1925 Michailescu was active in the avant-garde movement centred on the magazine Integral, while his paintings of this period evolved from Symbolism with Fauvist elements towards a fragmented geometric style influenced by Futurism and analytical Cubism. After 1930 he experimented with mescaline, under its influence realizing the non-figurative gouache series, Hour Visions (Bucharest, N. Mus. A.). Illness prevented him from working consistently and he withdrew into obscurity.
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