Raja Schwahn-Reichmann was born in Vienna in the district of Leopoldstadt, where she lives and works. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (graphic, conservation and technology), learned all traditional techniques like oil, wall painting, tempera, miniature, historical polychromy of sculptures, gilding, concerned with costume history, the conservation of archaeological and ethnological objects but also architecture and monument protection. She graduated there in the domain of paper and parchment.<\/p>\n
For several years she taught historical art techniques, painting and drawing for conservators. Her special artistic interest lies in history baroque interior designs and the connection between painting and architecture.<\/p>\n
Her painting is widely inspired by antique and baroque iconography. This also means to show the paintings not like an exhibition but during a feast, for example for Dionysus. All visitors, which shall be styled supported by the artist, become part of the Dionysium, that is like a \u201ctime sculpture.\u201d To direct the feast she paints mostly life-sized figures as cut out silhouettes (inspired by baroque Chantourn\u00e9s) which also carry candles to create the festive room.<\/p>\n
Starting from the spatial idea of the paintings: Design of the \u201cAu-Theater,\u201d a stage for the visitor center at the National Park Donauauen. Setting for the baroque feast for the Festival Palace Schloss Hof on the occasion of its opening (Documentary \u201cPrince Eugene\u2019s Miracle Garden \u2013 The reincarnation of the baroque garden of Schlo\u00df Hof,\u201d Interspot 2005). Overall design of the Life Ball 2014<\/a> with the motto \u201cGarden of Earthly Delights.\u201d<\/p>\n Schwahn-Reichmann was also founder of \u201cThe Josefinian Committee for Enjoyment<\/a>,\u201d which fought for the preservation of historic gardens at the Augartenspitz, part of the baroque Viennese Augarten.<\/p>\n Raja Schwahn-Reichmann was born in Vienna in the district of Leopoldstadt, where she lives and works. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (graphic, conservation and technology), learned all traditional techniques like oil, wall painting, tempera, miniature, historical polychromy of sculptures, gilding, concerned with costume history, the conservation of archaeological and ethnological objects but … Continue reading “Biographical notes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rajaschwahnreichmann.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Key areas of training<\/h3>\n
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\nVienna City Festival, Wiener Lustspielhaus, Baroque festivities at Schloss Hof, annual Christmas market in St. Gilgen, Long Night of Museums<\/li>\n