In 1963 I was born in Deggendorf, between the Danube and the Bavarian Forest. You can read about my parents, Margarete and Rudolf Schmid, in their respective biographies (written and edited by Barbara Thöner - see Linklist); here I only want to mention briefly that they are excellent parents who have always worked hard for their family until they dropped.

After I had passed primary school and grammar school in Viechtach in a reasonable way, I got some university air for four and a half semesters on expeditions through electrical engineering and indology, but unfortunately I showed myself too immature for a proper study. So I did an apprenticeship as a "glass and porcelain painter" in record time, which moreover I completed as the best of my year. The "serious side of life" has been a bit chaotic ever since ... because I like so many things and have a pretty good hand with it all, I like to change jobs and there also is always a lot of everyday repairs and maintenance work to do.
As an artist I paint and draw in different techniques on paper and on glass, create sculptures and jewellery of laminated glass, build furniture of wood and glass, make lamps of antique glass or of Pâte-de-Verre, sometimes manufacture coloured glass windows and have even once built a 4 meter high sculpture with bricks and concrete in the outside area of the "glass barn", which, due to lack of space, in the meantime had to give way to the work about "El Cid" which you can find there now.

In 1993 I followed the call of love and moved to Spain, where I married my wife in 1995, a ballet master who has stayed with me through thick and thin ever since. Until 2006 we lived in Cercedilla, near Madrid, where I built my own studio and created material for various exhibitions throughout the province. At the turn of the millennium I came into contact with laminated glass, which inspired me to create numerous sculptures, in many cases in conjunction with some of the techniques of painting and drawing on glass I know. In 2006 we moved to the green north of Spain, to Asturias. In a dwelling with endless possibilities (and still more need) of activity, renovations, structural adjustments etc., so that I did not get bored at all so far. Due to a tendency towards miniaturisation that had always been present in me, it was practically unavoidable to also work on laminated glass on a smaller scale and, by merging several artistic and handicraft techniques, I began to make jewellery from laminated glass.
In 2014 I created, almost in secret, the first 3 pieces of jewellery, which soon found lovers and thus gave me the necessary impetus to continue with this work. So I have created quite some pieces of jewellery, for neck and ears, of up to 15 layers of glass and always with some precious metal, be it gold leaf, silver leaf or white gold leaf.