German artist, aged 91 creates fragile Easter art

A 91-year-old German artist located outside Berlin, already start preparing her Easter decorations around Christmas.

With an astonishingly steady hand, the craftswoman from Rüdersdorf in Brandenburg used her brush to paint delicate, mosaic-like patterns and ornaments on fragile eggshells.

She started creating a sufficient supply in December due to the popular demand for her work.

Throughout the years, the artist has decorated thousands of Easter eggs.

It took her about an hour to paint an egg, while it took her three hours to engrave one egg with Goethe’s complete “Easter Walk’’ in letters that are millimetres small and barely legible to the eye.

“These are the eggs people like to buy the most. I have some advance orders,’’ explained the senior citizen, who sells her work at art exhibitions.”

Radoy also engraved motifs from the Rüdersdorf Museum Park or churches from the region around Leipzig where her daughter and great-granddaughters live.

Among the well-known people who owned one of her keepsake Easter eggs were politicians like Brandenburg Interior Minister Dietmar Woidke.

Others were; former regional premier Matthias Platzeck or artists like German opera singer René Kollo and Sebastian Krumbiegel, a member of the German band Die Prinzen.