About me
Maria Schwarzenberger
Painting & Graphic
Art, self-awareness, intense relationship with nature, animals and people I love; these are my sources of energy, inspiration, a life's journey and the meaning of life.
1971
I got the creativity and love of art from my mother in my life. She made sure that my path was allowed to lead me into art.
1977
When I was fifteen, I wanted to go to art high school. In Poland, this took five years. At that time I specialized in textile art and graduated with a diploma in fine arts.
1980
At that time I painted after nature. I was constantly in search of suitable motives.
1982
I began to take an interest in how I saw myself. I don't want to go into any more detail here - only this much: I grew up in a place in the direct vicinity of Auschwitz. This traumatic past had an effect right up to my family's present and shaped my life for a long time.
1982-92
It was a long way to my art studies. I first became a mother of a daughter and turned my life around. 1989 I left Poland and started all over again with new hope in Germany. Two years later I could start an art study at the free art academy, parallel to a study for art therapy in Nürtingen.
1992
I was increasingly interested in making visible and depicting psychological processes and emotional experiences.
Since then, I have used the connection between art and therapy as an intensive space of experience for myself and for other people.
Back in my studies, I broke away from small formats, cut the canvas out of the frame, and worked on large sheets like stretched skins. The pictures became increasingly sprawling, gloomy - the working method excessive and dynamic. Boundaries between the image and the reverse side of the picture dissolved. Images became earthy, muddy soils, a new ground. There I could take root, on a piece of self-created soil.
Gradually, quite a few pieces were created from these "earth materials", which presented themselves in the most diverse forms, up to room-sized installations.
The room installation "Way" developed into an initiation work for the departure into my new life.
Eckhard, my husband, I met on the first day of my studies, and with this day began our extremely fruitful artistic collaboration. 1996 we celebrated our wedding together in the form of the art festival "Spotkanie".
1997
Since 1997 I have been working as an art therapist in addition to my artistic activities.
2000
Since 2000 I live and work in Berlin. Here I have found a new home and the right inspiring environment for me.
2014
My activity includes setting up and running studios for people with disabilities. Organization of group art exhibitions for the participants of the offer.
My work has evolved and changed considerably over the years.
What I am particularly interested in today, after profound personal transformation processes, are the energy fields and currents that determine all relationships between the elements and that I experience and perceive in myself and the living. Through my art I create an experimental space where I try to transform energies into aesthetic form. Colours reflect states of energy, shapes and lines become expressions of dynamics, contrasts highlight tensions between forces. My paintings are testimonies to my affirmation of life.
The process of creating a single painting is long and involves several phases. In the beginning, I follow my intuition and spontaneous impulses to come up with a first basic structure. In a second step, the composition of the picture emerges and specific elements and structures crystallise.
What I am particularly interested in today, after profound personal transformation processes, are the energy fields and currents that determine all relationships between the elements and that I experience and perceive in myself and the living. Through my art I create an experimental space where I try to transform energies into aesthetic form. Colours reflect states of energy, shapes and lines become expressions of dynamics, contrasts highlight tensions between forces. My paintings are testimonies to my affirmation of life.
The process of creating a single painting is long and involves several phases. In the beginning, I follow my intuition and spontaneous impulses to come up with a first basic structure. In a second step, the composition of the picture emerges and specific elements and structures crystallise.
After this, more and more details are brought out in the work down to the smallest microcosmic visual elements. This is the first time the work is presented, e.g. here on this website or in an exhibition.
Any further development is based on an Art on Demand process. The image is enlarged using digital printing technology. The original artwork becomes the basis for a limited edition of print versions, each of which is then further embellished and refined individually.
What excites me about this process is that the client picks a work in its incomplete and preliminary state, and I in turn can bring it to completion while engaging in personal contact and subjectively addressing the client. This way, the creation process takes on a dialogical and interactive character. This is what makes the piece not only unique, but also personal, incorporating a creative dedication to the client. It becomes complete thanks to the shared interest of artist and client.
Any further development is based on an Art on Demand process. The image is enlarged using digital printing technology. The original artwork becomes the basis for a limited edition of print versions, each of which is then further embellished and refined individually.
What excites me about this process is that the client picks a work in its incomplete and preliminary state, and I in turn can bring it to completion while engaging in personal contact and subjectively addressing the client. This way, the creation process takes on a dialogical and interactive character. This is what makes the piece not only unique, but also personal, incorporating a creative dedication to the client. It becomes complete thanks to the shared interest of artist and client.
Maria Schwarzenberger
Painting & Graphic
Art, self-awareness,intense relationship with nature, animals and people I love; these are mysources of energy, inspiration, a life's journey and the meaning of life.
1971
I got the creativity and love of art from my mother in my life. She made sure that my path was allowed to lead me into art.
1977
When I was fifteen, I wanted to go to art high school. In Poland, this took five years. At that time I specialized in textile art and graduated with a diploma in fine arts.
1980
At that time I painted after nature. I was constantly in search of suitable motives.
1982
I began to take an interest in how I saw myself. I don't want to go into any more detail here - only this much: I grew up in a place in the direct vicinity of Auschwitz. This traumatic past had an effect right up to my family's present and shaped my life for a long time.
1982-92
It was a long way to my art studies. I first became a mother of a daughter and turned my life around. 1989 I left Poland and started all over again with new hope in Germany. Two years later I could start an art study at the free art academy, parallel to a study for art therapy in Nürtingen.
1992
I was increasingly interested in making visible and depicting psychological processes and emotional experiences.
Since then, I have used the connection between art and therapy as an intensive space of experience for myself and for other people.
Back in my studies, I broke away from small formats, cut the canvas out of the frame, and worked on large sheets like stretched skins. The pictures became increasingly sprawling, gloomy - the working method excessive and dynamic. Boundaries between the image and the reverse side of the picture dissolved. Images became earthy, muddy soils, a new ground. There I could take root, on a piece of self-created soil.
Gradually, quite a few pieces were created from these "earth materials", which presented themselves in the most diverse forms, up to room-sized installations.
The room installation "Way" developed into an initiation work for the departure into my new life.
Eckhard, my husband, I met on the first day of my studies, and with this day began our extremely fruitful artistic collaboration.1996 we celebrated our wedding together in the form of the art festival "Spotkanie".
1997
Since 1997 I have been working as an art therapist in addition to my artistic activities.
2000
Since 2000 I live and work in Berlin. Here I have found a new home and the right inspiring environment for me.
2014
My activity includes setting up and running studios for people with disabilities. Organization of group art exhibitions for the participants of the offer.
My work has evolved and changed considerably over the years.
What I am particularly interested in today, after profound personal transformation processes, are the energy fields and currents that determine all relationships between the elements and that I experience and perceive in myself and the living. Through my art I create an experimental space where I try to transform energies into aesthetic form. Colours reflect states of energy, shapes and lines become expressions of dynamics, contrasts highlight tensions between forces. My paintings are testimonies to my affirmation of life.
The process of creating a single painting is long and involves several phases. In the beginning, I follow my intuition and spontaneous impulses to come up with a first basic structure. In a second step, the composition of the picture emerges and specific elements and structures crystallise.
What I am particularly interested in today, after profound personal transformation processes, are the energy fields and currents that determine all relationships between the elements and that I experience and perceive in myself and the living. Through my art I create an experimental space where I try to transform energies into aesthetic form. Colours reflect states of energy, shapes and lines become expressions of dynamics, contrasts highlight tensions between forces. My paintings are testimonies to my affirmation of life.
The process of creating a single painting is long and involves several phases. In the beginning, I follow my intuition and spontaneous impulses to come up with a first basic structure. In a second step, the composition of the picture emerges and specific elements and structures crystallise.
After this, more and more details are brought out in the work down to the smallest microcosmic visual elements. This is the first time the work is presented, e.g. here on this website or in an exhibition.
Any further development is based on an Art on Demand process. The image is enlarged using digital printing technology. The original artwork becomes the basis for a limited edition of print versions, each of which is then further embellished and refined individually.
What excites me about this process is that the client picks a work in its incomplete and preliminary state, and I in turn can bring it to completion while engaging in personal contact and subjectively addressing the client. This way, the creation process takes on a dialogical and interactive character. This is what makes the piece not only unique, but also personal, incorporating a creative dedication to the client. It becomes complete thanks to the shared interest of artist and client.
Any further development is based on an Art on Demand process. The image is enlarged using digital printing technology. The original artwork becomes the basis for a limited edition of print versions, each of which is then further embellished and refined individually.
What excites me about this process is that the client picks a work in its incomplete and preliminary state, and I in turn can bring it to completion while engaging in personal contact and subjectively addressing the client. This way, the creation process takes on a dialogical and interactive character. This is what makes the piece not only unique, but also personal, incorporating a creative dedication to the client. It becomes complete thanks to the shared interest of artist and client.