Sissi Shattuck Resume

Sieglinde Shattuck was born in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, Austria. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Profs. Christian L. Martin, Maximilian Melcher and Herbert Boeckl. After her certification for Art Education, she earned the diploma in graphics and painting (Akademische Graphikerin und Malerin). Studies at the Schule des Sehens in Salzburg under Oskar Kokoschka were a decisive influence on the young artist. Comparing her work to the vibrant music of Igor Stravinsky, Oskar Kokoschka awarded her a prize in painting. After teaching art and textile art in Austria, Sieglinde married Gilman Shattuck of Nashua, NH and followed him to the US. The couple has four children. Sieglinde (Sissi) Shattuck works in oil, pastel, water color and graphic media. She is known for her portraits as well as landscapes and architecture of New England and Austria. The artist has a deep sense of responsibility towards the viewer. The life and order in her pictures have a corresponding effect on the person looking at her work. Sieglinde Shattuck was a prize winner of the Copley Society of Boston and of the Connecticut Art Association. She was awarded the 2003 Kunstpreis of the Raiffeisenbank Waidhofen ad. Thaya, Austria for an oil painting of Farrar Marsh, N.H. Her works are held in many private and public collections both in the United States and abroad. Her work has been shown in the United States and abroad (Vienna, Zagreb and at Raiffeisenbank galleries Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs, Klosterneuburg and Admont, also at the Niederosterreichische Landesbibliothek in St. Poelten).