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Alma Redlinger

painter (1924-2017)

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Source revisionSep 14, 2025
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Alma Redlinger (March 8, 1924 – February 2, 2017) was a painter and illustrator from Romania.

"Alma Redlinger has built a forward-looking career in its essence from the beginning. High-value, the artist's work proves an exceptional consistency and it is an example for those who have chosen art as a destiny. Alma Redlinger is part of artists generation which assure the continuity of interwar painting and contemporary painting." Octavian Barbosa, 1976

Studies

She studied at the Academy of art school free Maxy, between 1940 and 1944, and in 1945 at the Academy of Art Guguianu, with the teacher and painter M.H. Maxy. She was a member of the Artists Union in Bucharest from 1951. From 1945 she exhibited at graphic painting salons and then at state art exhibitions. After 1969 she participated in decorative art exhibitions and monumental art works executed in 1959–1961, 1964.

Personal exhibitions

1956, 1961, 1967 – Painting, Magheru B. Gallery

1970, 1975, 1978, 2002, 2004 – Painting, Simeza Gallery

1976 – Drawings, Theatre Tăndărică, Victoria Hall

1983, 1987, 1991 – Painting and Graphics, Orizont Gallery

1994 – Painting and Graphics, National Theatre, Bucharest

1998 – Graphics, Art House, Bucharest

1998 – Graphics, Club Junimea, Museum of Romanian Literature, Iași

2000 – Painting, Crown Plaza, Bucharest

2000 – Painting and Graphics, Frezia Gallery, Dej

2006 – "Atelier", Painting and Graphics, Veroniki Art Gallery, Bucharest

2007 – Military National Circle Gallery, Bucharest

2009 – Ana Gallery, Bucharest

2011 – Painting and Mixed Graphics, Dalles Hall Bucharest

2011 – Painting and Mixed Graphics Suceava History Museum

Group exhibitions

1953 – World Youth Exhibition

1959–1960 Collective exhibition Belarus, Minsk, and Athens

1965 – Internationale Buchkunstausstellung, Leipzing

1971 – 3rd International Bienniale of sport art, Madrid

1973 – The 4th International Bienniale of Sport, Madrid

1973 – Estampe contemporaine, National Library, Paris

1977 – International Exhibition of Romanian fine arts, Helsinki

1981 – Miro International Art Exhibition, Barcelona

1981 – George Enescu reverential exhibition, Bacau

1982 – Romanian Art Exhibition, Vienna

1984 – Intregraphik Berlin

1986 – Nicolae Tonitza reverential exhibition, Barlad

1987 – Luchian reverential exhibition, Botoșani

1988 – Romanian contemporary graphics

1991 – Romanian graphics, Israel

1994 – Romanian Art Exhibition in China

2003 – Contemporary Romanian Art in Italy

2003 – Judische Kunst, Montabaur, Germania

2005 – Alma Redlinger "After 60 years," Allianz Tiriac Gallery

Prizes

1945 – Anastase Simu Award;

1946 – Award of Fine Arts Ministry;

1959 – Mention of Mondial Festival of Youth;

1985 – Gold Medal of "Academia d'Italia delle Arti e delle Lavoro"

1985 – "Oscar d'Italia";

2004 – Order "Meritul cultural".

2006 – "Marcel Iancu award for Fine Arts

2011 – "Nihil Sine Deo" Medal offered by Michael of Romania

Works in museums and collections-selection

National Museum of Art of Romania,

Bacau Art Museum,

Timișoara Art Museum,

Iasi Art Museum

Galati Art Museum

Art collection of the Royal House of Romania

About Alma Redlinger

"The one that walks the halls of Alma Redlinger exhibition, is fascinated from the first moment of the safety, the vigor and the authority expression of this artist. The figure, a force that is given only by the synthesis ability, gives greatness to some works that are not exceeding a few tens of centimeters.

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