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After fifteen years of dedicated painting, I had entered a decade of quiet - a pause marked by reflection more than output.
Now, I return to the canvas clearer, more focused, and more mature, drawing from both the energy of my early work and the stillness that followed.
" [...] Meanwhile, my husband has returned from his conference and insists on hanging the painting
in our hall, which you have seen."
Loki Schmidt about former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on Ansgar Beer's portrait of his wife (letter to Ansgar Beer on July
23, 2004)