The Soviet system was so questionable, there was at least a solid frame people? After the collapse, total chaos with crime and corruption at all levels was instead of this system. In the midst of this chaos Mariana Scvortova was, by $24 monthly wage as a single Mother had to survive. As Germany allowed the immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union, Mariana Scvortova decided to draw with her child and her mother in the Federal Republic. Their first stop was the Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Immediately, she worked as a carer at the homework help for foreign children after completing their course, and after a year, her first exhibition took place. But the disillusionment followed on the foot: only an image has been sold.

Today she says: for me, it was a disaster. I could not understand that here my art not estimated. In retrospect I am surprised at my former naivete.” In Germany to hold still, she moved to Munich in 2000 and qualified in the field of new media. She quickly found a job as a Web Designer at a large company. But soon the artist had to admit that it is not designed for the corporate world.

I felt as a foreign body in this organism, it lacked the Sensuality.” Desperately, she was looking for another professional perspective and got the opportunity to give art courses at the folk high school (VHS) after months of looking. Since 2001, she has been Munich and its surroundings as a lecturer at the VHS. With success it deems seminars century and mosaics, watercolor, and pastel techniques fresco and tempera painting, classical drawing and oil painting technique of the XVII. “Teach classical painting Mariana Scvortova was also their own artistic position: the almost fetishistic attention to detail and material can be reached only with the layers of old techniques.” All these features of the works of artist bring a wide range of emotions in the Viewer. They are nostalgic, melancholic, but are in the sound with modern life. This also means to discover the antithesis of a modern man lost and insecure in the image. Artistically Mariana Scvortova has found its place it is socially still looking: it’s hard this orientation to profit and Money as a single value to accept. Then, I rather stay an old-fashioned idealist. Today I manage to make.” Munich, the 18.02.10. More info: