15 Facts About Nestor Ignat

Nestor Ignat Filotti was a Romanian journalist, writer and graphic artist.

Nestor Ignat was best known for his strong support for Marxist-Leninist ideology in culture.

Nestor Ignat joined the Romanian Communist Party while it was still illegal.

Nestor Ignat published articles in literary magazines where he exposed not only the writers which he considered as being "reactionary" but communist critics who were insufficiently pugnacious.

Nestor Ignat was one of the most zealous supporters of socialist realism; he was part of the first team of professors at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, one of the most ideologized institutions of higher education in Romania at the time.

Subsequently, Nestor Ignat was in charge of the theoretical journal of the Central Committee of Communist Party, Class Struggle.

Nestor Ignat was chairman of the Union of Journalists and member of the National Council on the Romanian State Radio and Television Networks.

Nestor Ignat was dean of the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Bucharest, giving up his position after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

Nestor Ignat continued his attacks previous against Lucian Blaga published in literary magazines:.

However, after Joseph Stalin's death, Nestor Ignat did not publish any other books on similar topics.

Nestor Ignat had shown concern for painting even before, having supported the activity of painters.

Nestor Ignat's name is nearly always mentioned along with other political activists with whom he collaborated, such as Silviu Brucan.

Except for the period from 1945 to 1955, Nestor Ignat's publications show a completely different ideological picture.

Nestor Ignat's drawings are influenced by the artistic avant-garde of the years between the two world wars and does not have the slightest connection with the socialist realism which he himself had supported as the only viable artistic expression.

Nestor Ignat remains a controversial figure, still raising many unanswered questions.