Bradi Barth (1922-2007) - Balletschool

Bradi Barth was born in 1922 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the daughter of a renowned surgeon. She began her formal art training in 1946 at the Royal Academy in Ghent, Belgium. Upon graduating, she received the Gold Medal of the Academy, the highest honor.

But it wasn’t until 1950, when she exhibited a canvas, The Spanish Lady, at the Exposition Nationale Quadriennale in Ghent, that her professional career truly began, as she received rave reviews. Soon she was commissioned to paint her first series of the 14 Stations of the Cross for St. John’s Basilica in Ghent, a city that for the rest of her life remained her true home.