Reinhard Schmid was born in Germany, in 1960, and has always been fascinated by surrealism as well as machines and engineering. For several years he was a navigator on a submarine, before he started painting on glass. His father Rudolf Schmid taught him the classical glass painting techniques and also the new ones he had invented himself. Over the last 20 years Reinhard Schmid refined the use of pencil and oil on the reverse side of glass, and developed his very own distinct style. He takes the fascinating old „sous verre“ technique to the next level of transparency and debth.
From 1991 to 2001 Schmid maintained a residence in Chicago, IL. From 1993 to 2013 he was the curator of the so-called “Vaults of Secrets” in his home town Viechtach, Germany, where he created a large scale version of tarot cards on glass (size: 5 x 14 m)
Reinhard Schmid’s works can be found in both private collections and galleries in Europe, the
United States and Japan, and since 1990 he also operates his own gallery. In recent years he was accepted by several groups of first-rate painters, and he participated in numerous projects throughout Europe. In recent years he has become very active in the crypto art space.
