Born and raised in post World War II Vienna, Austria, Eliza Schmid attended medical school at the University of Vienna, which as she says, turned out to be the "second best art school in town.". At the school she copied human anatomy from huge blackboards. She specialized in Anatomic Pathology. She received a fellowship to Stanford University in California, and stayed in the state to do her residency in psychiatry. After years of working with patients in Los Angeles, then going on …
Born and raised in post World War II Vienna, Austria, Eliza Schmid attended medical school at the University of Vienna, which as she says, turned out to be the "second best art school in town.". At the school she copied human anatomy from huge blackboards. She specialized in Anatomic Pathology. She received a fellowship to Stanford University in California, and stayed in the state to do her residency in psychiatry. After years of working with patients in Los Angeles, then going on to teach at UCLA as an assistant clinical professor, she eventually went back to studying fine art and moved to Santa Fe. As she says, "I could paint stories and ideas for the next hundred years as a result of my adventurous private and professional life."
