Background
She was born in 1937 in Berlin, the only child of the marriage between German industrialist Herbert Quandt and his first wife Ursel Munstermann. Her parents divorced in 1940 and Silvia stayed with her mother.
She was born in 1937 in Berlin, the only child of the marriage between German industrialist Herbert Quandt and his first wife Ursel Munstermann. Her parents divorced in 1940 and Silvia stayed with her mother.
She studied at the Academy for Graphic Arts in Munich and then trained as a commercial artist.
She has worked as a freelance painter since the 1960s. Works by Silvia Quandt can be seen today at the Bayrischen Staatsgemäldesammlung (Bavarian State Painting Collection) and in the Haus der Kunst Art Museum in Munich. She has had exhibitions in Munich, Düsseldorf, Münster, Mannheim, Bremen, London, Paris and Zurich.
Silvia Quandt"s paintings and graphic works are ascribed to Fantastic Realism, characterised by a tendency towards the Surreal and Romanticism.