Born in 1876 in the Gorj county, in a family of peasant origin, Constantin Brancusi is the most famous and with the most credentials Romanian sculptor, his art works being held in great appreciation in Romania as well as worldwide. After graduating from the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova, Brancusi enrols at the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, and in 1904 arrives in Paris, as Antoine Mercier's disciple. He will work in Auguste Rodin's studio; after 1907 he follows his own path, giving to contemporary sculpture new shape and meaning. He leaves with arrogance and hope his master's studio, after comparing him to a tree at whose shade no grass grows. His sculptures were exhibited in Paris, Bucharest, London, Munich, New York, Chicago and Boston. The period between the two world wars was the most creative of his career.

It is the time period when he sculpted famous masterpieces like "Miss Pogany", "The Kiss", "Maiastra", "Prayer", "Child's Head", "The Sleeping Muse", "Princess X", "Gate of the Kiss", "Table of Silence", "Endless Column". During his career he had three personal exhibitions in New York and participated in 57 collective exhibitions, of which 23 were in the United States, 16 in France, 5 in Romania, and 13 in the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Holland, Germany.
Brancusi is also the creator of the busts of Georgescu-Gorjan (1902) and of the general dr. Carol Davila, the latter being placed after 9 years in the yard of the Military Hospital of Bucharest.
The French period of his life starts in 1904, when he heads toward Paris, stopping in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Switzerland.
In Rodin's art studio, Brancusi creates "The Portrait of Nicolae Darascu", "Boy's Bust", "Boy's Head", "Duplicio" as well as "Prayer" and "The Portrait of Petre Stanescu" which constitute a funerary ensemble ordered for Buzau.

While cubism and other rationalist tendencies were developing in art, Brancusi slowly departed from the impressionistic style of Rodin, in order to start a life long quest for the essence, for the lasting spiritual substance.

Some of his works of art show the influence of archaic arts, black or oceanic ethnical communities, which prompted the painter Henri Rousseau with the remark that Brancusi "transformed the antique into the modern".

The artist returned to Romania at the request of the National Women's League of Targu Jiu, which wanted to dedicate a monument to the national heroes from the First World War.
This is when he creates the famous triptych: "The Table of Silence", "The Gate of the Kiss" and "The Endless Column", considered as his masterpiece. The master blends in these works local folkloric art, in fact the whole of the Romanian cultural heritage, with modern art.
Constantin Brancusi died in Paris in 1957, at the age of 81.