Peter Schmidt

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For German writer Peter Schmidt, born 1944 (thriller, satire, Theory of Feeling and Emotional Intelligence, "Attractio-Aversio-Theory", "EQ-Training") see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schmidt

For a Russian revolutionary of 1905, see Pyotr Schmidt

Peter Schmidt was an artist and teacher in England. He was born in 1931 and died while on holiday in Spain in 1980. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, and may have had associations with Mark Boyle and Tom Phillips.

Schmidt was a teacher of Brian Eno at art school in the 1960s and later they found they had both independently arrived at a system of using little quotes and axioms to overcome artistic obstacles. They combined efforts to publish the Oblique Strategies cards in 1975. See also this external link on the oblique strategies, [1] and on Eno's comments on Schmidt at [2].

Five of Schmidt's prints from late 1968 are in a UK government art collection that hangs works in various government buildings. See [3]

Brian Eno included four watercolor prints of Schmidt's work with one of his LPs, Before and after Science. See [4].

Schmidt apparently had some connections to the Beaux Art gallery.

Another of Schmidt's students was Colin Newman of the band Wire, who studied under him at Watford School of Art around 1975.

[edit] Quotes

"One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality; a model as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference."

"In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting."