born in Siegen, Germany; school in Soest; degree in psychology at Konstanz university; worked with children and disabled patients as psychologist; additional training as psychotherapist; worked with prisoners and mentally ill patients; for twenty years ran her own practice as psychotherapist.
Concurrently worked as an artist, specialising in collage and material pictures, and experiments with form, colour and light; various exhibitions in and around Soest, including in studio of Walter Jasper (Wadersloh), in the gallery of Liesborn Abbey, in White Horse Theatre (Müllingsen); member of Soest District Art Society and Griffelkunstvereinigung. Since 2006 full-time work as an artist, specialising in lamps and light-objects.
Anna Schmidt is married with two sons.
