Margareta Schaeffer

I was born in Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia, now Serbia). After completing studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade majoring in piano, I went to Germany and settled down near Frankfurt, where I worked as a piano teacher and as painter.
In 2006, I opened my studio - in the historic district in the city of Passau and devoted myself to painting as a freelance painter.

As a pianist, I am "only" an interpreter alien works. As a painter I have the freedom to create my own works, in which I can express my personal feelings, fantasies and thoughts in form and colour. It is an exciting process - from the idea to the finished picture - an everlasting creation from the experienced world and the world of fantasy, their contents, in the work process. Thus are the impressions which are found in them; whether loosely sketchy or more in detail. As an advocate of realistic painting (sometimes slightly abstracted), my themes are always human and world-wide. In contrast to some painters who like to write a subject, I need the diversity - both the variety of the pictorial ideas, as well as the painting techniques. Whether with brush or painting knife, oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolour or drawing -it is always an adventure, immersed in ever ...

From 1982 onwards numerous group and individual exhibitions, including: Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia now Serbia), Kesthely, Vesprém (Hungary), Darmstadt, Gross-Gerau, Nauheim, Rüsselsheim, Reinheim, Frankfurt, Griesheim / Darmstadt, Gernsheim ... (Germany)

Since 2002 individual exhibitions in Passau, regular participations in the exhibitions of "BBK Niederbayern", "Kunstverein Passau", "AGON eV", "Ateliers Niederbayern", "Kunstnacht in der Altstadt" and permanent exhibitions in my studio of Passau.
Pictures in private collections in Germany, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary and in the USA, as well as in some public institutions at home and abroad.

memberships:
AGON e. V.
BBK Lower Bavaria
Art Society Passau