About Svargo Florian Schuller

SVARGO F. SCHULLER
THE LIFE OF A MAN LIVING IN ZEN .

"Creativity is the expansion of Consciousness itself, then painting and dancing are equal tools of God like the simple daily activities".

Born August 1 1941 in Stralsund Germany.

Education:

High School Bonn/Germany 1961
German postal assistant training Cologne 1963
Art academies in Cologne, Duesseldorf/Germany and Vienna/Austria 1968-69
Watsonville Adult School in Watsonville California, Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) 2005

Post assistant in Bonn/Germany 1961-63
Teacher for Art and Creativity at the School for Creative Arts in Poona/India 1979-81.
Gardener and handyman in Salzburg/Austria and in Felton and the Santa Cruz area 2004-2010.
Traveling as an Art - and Meditation teacher in Europe, India and Australia 1969-91
Connected with exhibitions in federal and private galleries and art fairs in Europe, India, Russia and the Ukraine.
From 1991-99 teaching art and meditation in Universities, federal and private Institutes in Russia, Siberia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldavia and the Ukraine.
Cofounder of a sustainable and spiritual farming commune in Buddhi Near Carkov/Ukraine 1998.
Teaching art and Zen at the Osho Academy in Sedona/Arizona 1999 and at Tassajara Zen Center in Big Sur California 2002.
Home care providing for a friend who died on ALS 2004-05.
Working as a certified Nurse assistant and certified homecare provider in private care 2005
Teaching Zen Painting classes in the Santa Cruz Moutain Art Center, California 2010.

Board of Directors of the Santa Cruz Art League 1999- 2004, art teacher of I-You- venture program in the Capitola Care Center in Santa Cruz California.
Assisting in art classes at the San Lorenzo High School in Felton, and in the Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center in Ben Lomond, California 2010.

House of Art Klagenfurt and Vienna/Austria, Museum of the 20th Century Vienna, Gallery Basilisk Vienna,
Gallery des Artes Duesseldorf/Germany, International Art Fairs in Cologne, Duesseldorf and Vienna/Austria, Institute of Art Charkov/Ukraine and private galleries in Europe.

"Spiritual Art Exhibit" with Zen painting dance performance in Santa Cruz Art League, Wesak Art Festival, Mount Shasta Watercolor Society of Santa Cruz,
"Local Essence" Santa Cruz Art League, Michael Angelo Gallery Santa Cruz
Mount Madonna Center, Watsonville, California, 2009.
La Madrona Club, Scotts Valley, California, 2010
Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center, California, 2010

New Dimensions Healing Arts Felton, classes in blind painting, painting in nature and Zen painting sessions (Video)
"Art and Meditation" lecture series in the Art league Santa Cruz and Thunderbird bookstore Carmel,
"The Art of Zen"lecture and performance in Gateway bookstore Santa Cruz/CA.
"Painting with No Mind"workshop in Tassajara Zen Center in Big Sur,
"No mind painting" and "Butoh dance" classes in Umi Foundation, Aptos,
"Zen painting" performance in Michael Angelo Gallery Santa Cruz (Video)
Teaching Zen Painting classes at the Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center CA 2010
Zen Painting Performance in Mount Madonna Center, Watsonville, CA 2009

Federal Department of Education and Art Austria
International Graphic Collection Albertina Vienna/Austria, Technical Museum Vienna,
Department of Culture in Vienna
Linz and Klagenfurt/Austria
Private collections all over the world

He received several grants from the Austrian Federal Department of Education and Arts.

About Zen "let Meditation be your Art" In Institutes, Universities and Schools in Vienna, Linz, Salzburg/Austria, Poona/India, Fremantle/Australia, Riga/Latvia, Vilnius/Lithuania, Minsk/White Russia, St.Petersburg, Moscov/Russia, Jekaterinburg Magnetogorsk, Krasnojarsk/Siberia, Tbilisi/Georgia, Kiev, Odessa, Charkov and Donezk/Ukraine.