Casa Memorială Constantin Brâncuși Hobița

In the village of Hobița, Peștișani commune in Gorj County, stands the memorial house dedicated to Constantin Brâncuși, the greatest Romanian sculptor and one of the fathers of modern sculpture. Here, in 1876, was born the artist who would revolutionise the art of the 20th century in Paris, and the residence recreates the atmosphere of an Oltenian peasant homestead, with the traditional timber house, the porch on carved posts, the wooden gates and the household objects of the period. The woodcraft, the archaic forms and the folk motifs the young Brâncuși saw in childhood recur, stylised, in his mature works, from the Endless Column to the Gate of the Kiss, raised later at Târgu Jiu.

A visit to Hobița thus becomes a key to reading his entire oeuvre, a return to the peasant roots of a universal art. Practical note: include Hobița on a route together with the Monumental Ensemble in Târgu Jiu to grasp the artist's journey.