Elena Alexandrina Barabaș-Bednarik (19 April 1883 – 24 February 1939) was a

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n painter and art teacher.

Biography

Elena graduated from the National School of Art in

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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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