Elena Alexandrina Barabaș-Bednarik (19 April 1883 – 24 February 1939) was a
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
n painter and art teacher.
Biography
Elena graduated from the National School of Art in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...
in 1908, where she was taught by
Dimitrie Serafim
Dimitrie Serafim (1862 – 1931) was a Romanian painter in the Academic and Impressionist styles.
Biography
Serafim was born in Bucharest. His father, Anton Serafim (1838-1911) was a church painter of aromanian ancestry who originally came f ...
. From 1909 to 1912, she studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria ...
. She later became a painting teacher at the high schools "Principesa Elena" in
Brașov, "Domnița Ileana" and "Notre-Dame" in Bucharest.
She had one child, Beatrice. When her first child, Beatrice Bednarik, was born, Elena Alexandrina Bednarik was 39 years old. She married Romanian painter
Ignat Bednarik
Ignat Bednarik (March 8, 1882 – March 11, 1963) was a Romanian painter who worked in almost every genre of painting before devoting himself purely to watercolor. He was also interested in decorative art, design, interior decoration and book illu ...
and died in
Mogoșoaia.
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1883 births
1939 deaths
Romanian painters
Romanian women painters
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