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SCHREIER, Hilde
- Born
- Vienna, Austria, 1926
- Biography synopsis
- Before emigrating to Canada in 1953, Hilde Schreier studied stage setting and costume design at the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna. She taught printmaking and sculpture at the Ottawa Municipal Arts Centre and later at the Ottawa School of Art. In the 1970s she began working with fibres and produced hanging tapestries. Schreier participated in many solo and group shows across Canada beginning in the 1970s and was still exhibiting in 1998. In 1974 her work was included in the International Craft Show as part of the World Craft Council meeting in Toronto. In 1981 she produced “From Sea to Sea,” an interpretation in colour and texture of the qualities of the Canadian landscape which was included in the exhibition “Canada Mikrokosma : An Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Tapestries by Twenty-two Canadian Artists,” organized with the support of the Department of External Affairs as a part of Canada’s official opening of the Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences in London, England in 1982. Schreier is represented in the collection of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario and in the City of Ottawa Art Collections.
- Media used
- Costume design
- Drawing
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Textiles
- Theatre design
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Art in Craft Toronto, ON: [Canadian Guild of Crafts (Ontario)], 1975
- "15 Canadian Works in International Exhibit" The Globe and Mail Apr. 12, 1974: 20
- Alfoldy, Sandra. Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005
- Armstrong, Geoffrey, et al. Entr'acte: Exposition de métiers d'art canadiens sur le thème du théâtre/Entr'acte: Canadian Craft in a Theatrical Theme Toronto, ON: [Canadian Guild of Crafts (Ontario)], 1973
- Basciano, Rebecca. We'll All Become Stories Vancouver, B.C.: Raincoast Books, 2017
- Constantine, Mildred and Jack L. Larsen. The Art Fabric: Mainstream New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.
- Crawford, Gail. A Fine Line: Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998
- Duffy, Helen and Rousseau-Vermette, Mariette. Canada Mikrokosma : An Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Tapestries by Twenty-two Canadian Artists = Exposition de tapisseries contemporaines de vingt-deux artistes canadiens Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre,, 1982
- 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
- Parkin, Jeanne. Art in Architecture: Art for the Built Environment in the Province of Ontario Toronto: Visual Arts of Ontario, 1982
- Taylor, Dean. "Out of the City: Textiles in 3-D Tour the Province." The Globe and Mail 13 April, 1974: 28
Writings by- Schreier H, and W. Schreier. Let There Be Light: An Irreverent Rhymed View of the Old Testament Ottawa, Ontario: Hats Off Books, 2001.
