Artist Bio
Galina Hartinger was born in 1977 in Ukraine.
Her university education in philosophy and religion and later on in theory and history of art underpinned her development as a thinker and helped her to develop her artistic inspirations. Her interest led her to study the art of drawing at the prestigious Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg. She has also received individual training from well-known artists in Russia and in South Africa. Observing the artists' individual styles, she mastered her artistic technique.
Galina has worked as a leading makeup artist with soloists at the Music Hall, the Musical Comedy Theater in St. Petersburg, and on TV. She has worked with famous opera singers Anna Netrebko, Olga Peretyatko, Elina Garancha, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, and many other stars of the Russian theater and cinema scene.
Creating characters and heroes for musicals, and drawing emotions for performances on the faces of artists while still working in the theater, Galina helped artists achieve maximum transformation, get used to the image, and broadcast the character of the characters for the viewer. The concept of the relationship between the viewer and the person has been preserved in her paintings. “Faces speak more than it seems to us at first view,” says Galina. In 2018 Galina moved to Austria, where her next chapter of artistic development started and she fully immersed herself into art as a full-time artist focusing on painting and sculpture. Having had an inspiring experience in theatre, Galina's art is centered around people, their faces, and their emotions.