Paul Schuss

Paul Schuss was born in Münzkirchen, Austria, by the Danube River, in 1948. He came to France in 1949, and he has benefited from a Franco-Austrian cultural upbringing. As an accomplished painter, he has created his own artistic world out of poetry and meditation. Perhaps his inspiration comes from the history of his family, whose origins date back to the 12th century in the Cani della Scalla family of Verona, Italy, and the Von Ash Family from Tyrol, Austria.

As soon as he learned how to hold a pen, he started to draw and paint. At the age of 10, he met the French painter Albert Drachkovitch-Thomas, who discovered his talent and introduced him to the tempera technique. At the age of 19, after beginning law school in Paris, he eventually decided to devote himself entirely to his passion.

Today, Schuss has mastered a great variety of techniques ranging from watercolor to painting, pastel, mixed techniques, drawing, tint, and lithography. He learned the lithography at the world famous Mourlot Studios in Paris. He destroys officially the plates used for his lityographs. So he sells each lithograph with an authenticity certificate.

The impressions conveyed by his works belong to a world of meditation and philosophy as the viewer is presented with a sense of poetic realism and mystical fantasy.

For more than thirty years, Paul Schuss has been exhibiting his work at an international level, in France, Austria, Germany, Japan, England,Monaco, and in the USA (Hawai'i).His work is found in official and private collections all over the world.

Paul Schuss currently lives in Burgundy, France, and loves traveling around the world. He is married to Chantal Garceau and they have two children: Tatiana and Romain.

Main exhibitions

* 1966:At the age of 17 he exhibited for the first time in the Salon du groupe Nivernais, Chapelle Sainte Marie,Nevers (France)

* 1967:Two exhibitions in the Salon du groupe Nivernais, Chapelle Sainte Marie, Nevers (France)

* 1969:One-man exhibition in the Galerie Duncan, Paris (France)

* 1970:Salon des Surindépendants, Paris (France)

* 1971:-One-man exhibition in Haus der Donauschwaben [http://www.donauschwaben.at/verbaende/salzburg/geschichte.htm] in Salzburg (Austria)

-One-man exhibition in Haus der Donauschwaben in Sindelfingen (Germany)

* 1972:-One-man exhibition in the painter's studio in Salzburg (Austria)

-One-man exhibition in the Residenz, Salzburg (Austria)

-One-man exhibition in the Centre Culturel Français de Munich, Munich (Germany)

-One-man exhibition in the Palais Lobkowitz, Franzözisches Kultur Institut, Vienna (Austria)

-Encounter with Dr. Karl Kanzian, who guides him in his spiritual quest

* 1975:One-man exhibition in the Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris (France)

* 1981:One-man exhibition in the Galerie Saint Vincent, Nevers (France)

* 1984:-One-man exhibition in the Galerie d'Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris (France)

-Honored guest at the Salon de l'Hôtel de Ville de Sens, Sens (France)

-Galerie l'Art Ancien, Orléans (France)

* 1985:-Salon de Montmorency, Montmorency (France)

-Galerie Schèmes, Lille (France)

* 1986:One-man exhibition in the Galerie d'Art de la Place Beauvau, Paris (France)

* 1987:-Hôtel de Ville of the 10th Arrondissement, Paris (France)

-Daïmaru Galleries, Osaka, Tokyo (Japan)

* 1988:-One-man exhibition in the Galerie l'Art Ancien, Orléans (France)

-Baden-Baden (Germany)

* 1989 to 1993:-Daïmaru Galleries, Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto (Japan)

-Nikken Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)

-Estel International Gallery (Japan)

-Mori Art Gallery (Japan)

* 1996:Galerie Olivier Arens, Saint-Maarten (French West Indies)

* 1998:-Daïmaru Galleries (Japan)

-One-man exhibition, Vézelay (France)

* 1999:-One-man exhibition in the Galerie Schèmes, Lille (France)

-Galerie Dewez, Reims (France)

-Abbaye de Bosquerville, Rouen (France)

* 2000:-Galerie Artop, Lille (France)

* 2002:

-Gallery in Cork Street, as Member of the Society for the Art of Imagination [http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/MemberArt.html] , London (United Kingdom)

-Goldmark Gallery, as Member of the Society for the Art of Imagination [http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/MemberArt.html] , (United Kingdom)

* 2003 and 2004:Open studio, Sainpuits (France)

* 2005:Retrospective exhibition in the Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Monaco (Monaco)

* 2007:Shipstore Galleries, Hawai'i (USA)

Bilbiography

* France :

-"Annuaire de l’Art International", (1986-1987) Edition Sermadiras, France.

-"Annuaire National des Beaux-Arts", (1998) Edition Thibaud, France.

-"Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs nivernais du XVe au XXe siècle", (2002) Maurice Bardin, Editions du Conseil Général.

-"Visages de Bourgogne", (1999) Edition du Cherche Midi, France.

-"L’Yonne et les peintres", (2004) Roland Conilleau, Editions de Bagatelle.

* Japan:

-"Peintures Contemporaines Françaises", Bijutsu Sekaï Edition (1987)

-"Ecole de Paris", Daïmaru Edition (1989)

* Switzerland:

-"Who’s Who in International Art", (1991-1992)

-"Who’s Who in International Art", (1993-1994)

-"Who’s Who in International Art", (1998-1999)

* Monaco:

-Nice Matin (June 2005) (newspaper)

-Monaco Riviera Magazine (Spring 2005) (article and reproduction)

-Résidences Côte d’azur (July 2005) (article and reproduction)

-Grand Sud (May-June 2005)

Broadcasts

* Germany: -For the cultural exhibition in the Fransözisches Kultur Insitut (1972), Munich, Germany

* France:-FR3 (1984), Regional Edition of Orléans

-FR3 (1988), Regional Edition of Orléans

-France 3 (1998), Regional Edition of Burgundy

* Monaco:-TMC (Télé Monte-Carlo) (2005)

Video

* Japan:-“Portrait of the artist” (1987), Estel International Galleries

Radio

* France:-Radio France Auxerre (1998)

-Radio France Auxerre (2000)

* Austria: -Newscasts, Salzburg (1971)

-Newscasts, Salzburg (1972)

Web sites

-www.artprice.com -bi.adagp.fr -www.libello.com -www.artaujourdhui.com

Collections

Paul Schuss’ works can be found in worldwide collections.

* Official acquisitions:

-France:

Bought by the Préfecture de la Nièvre (Nevers)

-Austria:

Bought by the Salzburg City and the Salzburgland.

* Private Collections:

-USA (Hawaii: Dr Ph Temple…)

-Japan (Dr Sozo Hino…)

-Monaco (SAS Prince Albert II de Monaco)

-France( Seydoux de Claussone, Drachkovitch-Thomas, J. Minet…)

-Germany (Spiegel von Stertz…)

-Austria (Dr Karl Kanzian, Dr Lodgman von Auen, Dr Thomas…) etc…

Honorific distinctions and Awards

* France: -Silver Medal of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (1988)

* Italy: -Professor Honoris Causa and Associated Academician to the Accademia Internazionale Greci-Marino di Lettere, Arti, Sciencze (1999)

-Knight or Chevalier Académique Del Verbano (2000)

Article extract

"The artist leads us into a visionary universe of astonishing poetical force. This romanticism assisted by a perfectly controlled classical technique calls out for meditation, contemplation, contact with the great forces of the sun and of the earth of which the artist seems to pick up the essence, the soul, and the vital urge. The quest of the absolute. It is the pursuit of knowledge, of communion with the divine –this inner sunlight- which haunts this seeker after the music of the spheres, this alchemic story-teller of another time. Thirst for peace, for great spaces lit up with beneficial suns. The thirst for communication too, with the essence of man: the heart and the soul."

La Revue Moderne, 1975, Paris.

Translation by Tatiana Schuss (Copyright 2006)