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SCHMIDT, Marianna
- Born
- Nagybecskerek, Hungary, 1918
- Died
- Vancouver, 2005
- Biography synopsis
- Marianna Schmidt studied at the Vancouver School of Art in the early 1960s after immigrating to Canada in 1961 to escape communist Hungary. She studied drawing and painting but focused on printmaking techniques including Japanese woodblock, lithography, and screen printing. The subject of her works underlined the personal losses of her family, themes of alienation and dislocation deploying neo-expressionistic and surrealistic approaches. In the 1980s, she returned to painting and the human figure, and in the 1990s she began working with xerography (photocopying) to make new images of collages constructed with found images and household junk. Schmidt received early recognition for her printmaking works including first prize at the Annual Calgary Graphics Exhibition and the Burnaby National Print Show in 1965, the Sterling Award at the Annual exhibition of the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers in 1966, and in 1967, she was one of six Canadians selected for the International Exhibition of Prints and Engravings in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. In 1991 the Vancouver Art Gallery held a solo exhibition of Schmidt’s work, and in 2007 a retrospective was installed in three concurrent Vancouver exhibition spaces. Her works can be found in a number of major Canadian collections as well as international collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York, Stedelijk Museum in Belgium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Peru, Museum of Fine Arts, Venezuela, and the National Gallery of Australia.
- Media used
- Collage
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Education
- Vancouver School of Art, 1960 - 1965 (under Orville Fisher, Jack Shadbolt)
- File & Archive locations
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- Vancouver Public Library, BC - Fine Arts and History Department
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "BAG presents Retrospective of Modernist Marianna Schmidt." Burnaby News Leader 19 July 2007: 33
- "Marianna Schmidt." Early East European Artists Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University Art History, 1989
http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/schmidt.html - Arnold, Robert, et al. Younger Vancouver Sculptors : October 15 through November 2, 1968 Vancouver, B.C.: The Gallery, University of British Columbia, 1968
- Burnaby Art Gallery. Figures of Reason, Portraits from the Mind : Marianna Schmidt, Bruce Hutton Burnaby, B.C.: Burnaby Art Gallery, 1990
- de Rousseau, J. "Les peintres de la Colombie Britannique et leur envrionnement." Vie des Arts 44 (automne 1966: 76-84
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/58368ac - Jeffries, Bill, et al. Marianna Schmidt Burnaby, British Columbia: Burnaby Art Gallery; Evergreen Cultural Centre; Simon Fraser, 2007
http://www.sfu.ca/galleries/publications/Catalogues/Schmidt.html - Laurence Robin, et al. Marianna Schmidt. Burnaby Art Gallery 2007 Burnaby, British Columbia: Burnaby Art Gallery, 2007
- Laurence, Robin. "Marianna Schmidt's Collage Art." Canadian Art 13 Summer 1996: 79
- Laurence, Robin. "Marianna Schmidt." Vanguard Feb. 1984: 44
- Laurence, Robin. "Marianna Schmidt: a Prize-winning Artist who exhibited both Prints and Sculpture Internationally during the 1960s and early 70s. Canadian Art 8.1 (Spring 1991): 72
- Lindberg, T. Marianna Schmidt Vancouver. B.C.: The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College, 1985
- Lum, Ken. Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life 1991-2018 Montreal, Qc.: Concordia University Press, 2020
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009
- Maclellan, Julie. "SFU, Burnaby gallery team up for show." Burnaby Now 16 Sep 2015
- Schmidt, Marianna, et al. Marianna Schmidt : Migrations Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1991
- Tuele, Nicholas, et al. Printmaking in British Columbia, 1889-1983 Victoria, B.C.: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983
- Varney, E., et al. Warehouse Show: Local Contemporary Art Vancouver, British Columbia: Warehouse Show, 1985
