Alexandra Erttmann-Baradlaiová was born in 1948 in Bratislava, today Slovakia. From 1969 to 1975, she studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. There, she was in the classes of Peter Phillips (Guest Professor, 1968–1969) and Rudolf Hausner (Professor of Drawing 1965-1980). After graduation, Alexandra continued her life and work as an artist in Hamburg, specializing in murals, frescoes and paintings. In 1991, she founded a studio with exhibition rooms and an etching and painting workshop in Hamburg.
Many of her works hover between naturalism and a kind of magic, or rather poetic, realism, fusing concise depictions of people and places with dream-like elements. Her mixed-media Häuserfassade in Venedig, however, is the detailed rendering of a Venetian palace’s facade as it reflects in the canal, executed in light and ocher tones, with the outlines executed pencil.1
This article was published in February 2025.
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n.a.: "Mehr Raum für Kunst!", in: Gartenstadt Hamburg, 04/2009, p. 11. https://www.gartenstadt-hamburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/bu200904.pdf (last accessed Jan. 31, 2025).