Curriculum vitae
She was fortunate enough to have had studied at a time when dedicated and disciplined teachers were lecturing in Drama, who taught practically. The curriculum at the time included the drawing and painting of personal designs for such topics as “scenery and costume. Hanna Scheriau also absolved the “International Summer Academy Salzburg“, Oskar Kokoschka’s legendary “School of Seeing“. On the occasion of the famous AIDA presentation under Herbert von Karajan, in the summer of 1979, the artist, Hanna Scheriau, was approached by the “Salzburger Nachrichten” to write an article about the origin of the Aida costume. In the inserts to the festival edition of the presentation dated July 28th an article was published by her, together with two of her handmade Indian ink paintings. Despite family commitments (which included three daughters) Hanna Scheriau never gave up her passion for drawing and painting on paper, wood, glass, ceramics etcetera. Only a few years ago she discovered the medium of SILK for her paintings. On silk colour can flow completely differently than on paper and it has a special luminous power. Inspired by her vivid imagination, she began experimenting with the silk discovery, and a completely new way of painting was born. Each of her paintings is fresh and unique and cannot be copied because of it`s style and technique. Architekt Ing. Mag. Arch. Dr.techn. Heinz Kugler Salzburg, September 2004 |
Hanna Scheriau was born in Vienna (16.11.1942), and the family thereafter moved to Salzburg. Since generations there has been a call to the arts in the family, namely to music, literature and last but not least to painting.
Paul Maresch