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. Two or three flat color patches give works relief, and the viewer the feeling that everything that had to be said was said. No unnecessary detail, any element "for beauty" does not disturb these images, which remain in memory long after you've seen it. In painting, drawing or collage, in the final works or drawings, Alma Redlinger is the same sober and personal artist, foreign to attractive show or complacent. In earlier paintings, compositions, still life and flowers, cubist severity intuition has made its mark. By the 70s, or even earlier, when others were trying to find Cubism, Alma Redlinger was already doing synthesis in this spirit (...)" Radu Ionescu