One year after the disappearance of one of the most important names in contemporary art – painter and graphic artist Alma Redlinger, Romanian Cultural Institute, in partnership with the Federation of Hebrew Communities in Romania, National Commission of Romania for UNESCO (CNR UNESCO) and the European Federation of Associations, Centres and UNESCO Clubs (FEACCU) organized in the Great Hall of the Romanian Cultural Institute, during 15-28 March 2018, painting exhibition "Giving".
At the opening of the exhibition that took place Thursday, 15 March 2018 they were speeches by the curator of the exhibition and the vice-president of the Alimnus Club for UNESCO – dr. Mihaela Varga, custodian of the Alma Redlinger fund collection - lecturer dr. arh. Stefan Simion, President of the European Federation of Associations, Centres and UNESCO Clubs (FEACCU) and of the Alumnus Club for UNESCO - Dr. Daniela Popescu, the vice-president of the Romanian Cultural Institute – Béla Dan Krizbai, as well as the artist's nephew.
The event was attended by artists and representatives from the art world, university staff, collectors as well as representatives of the Greek and Jewish communities in Bucharest.
Alma Redlinger was born on 8 March 1924, Bucharest. He studied at the famous painting school that Max Herman Maxy organized during the Second World War for ethnic Jews who were denied access to state education. Despite the severe trauma that the young teenager suffered during the exclusion period, this had no effect on her artistic message. A feeling of well-being seems to animate all the characters in Alma Redlinger's creations, care, young and full of life, they are captured in creative acts (Saxophonist, 2011), cultural or everyday. The static natures contain numerous cultural allusions - just as many testimonies of the artistic values in which the artist believed (Tribute to Maxy, Album Petraşcu). The technique is perfect - expressiveness, pagination, as well as the pleasure and knowledge of rendering the most common materials - including glass, for whose transparency and brilliance, the painter seems to have a special fascination (Workshop corner with brushes and the Whistle). What he passed on from his master is a certain spirit of the avant-garde, which also increased over the years, an unostentatious avant-garde spirit, but all the more deeply. Her works entered the heritage of many museums, including the National Art Museum of Romania, and in private collections from the country and abroad: France, Italy, Germany, Israel, YOUR, Japan, Holland, England etc. a. – dr. Mihaela Varga, curator.
Alma Redlinger a former member of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania from 1951 Yes to the Italian Academy of Arts and Work, since 1980. Throughout his prodigious career, the artist opened dozens of personal exhibitions in Romania and abroad, many of them even in recent years, participated in prestigious national and international salons and received numerous awards: Award of the Ministry of Arts in 1946, Third Prize at the World Youth Festival in 1953, Gold Medal of the Italian Academy delle Arti e delle Lavoro in 1985, "Marcel Iancu" prize for visual arts 2003-2004, granted by the Federation of the Jewish Community in Romania.
In 2004 he was awarded the Cultural Order in the rank of COMMANDER, CATEGORY. C Fine Arts, again in 2011, M.S. King Mihai awarded him the "Nihil Sine Deo" Decoration.
Alma Redlinger last attended a cultural event in December 2016, at the National Art Museum of Romania, where the symposium dedicated to the Painting School of M.H. Maxy, which was part of the program Diagonal, made by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
