Anke Riemenschneider born in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany).
Living in Basel (Switzerland).
She studied piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and received her Master in performing arts in Basel (Switzerland).
She is also a writer of poems and short stories and studied German literature and musicology at the J. W. Goethe University (Frankfurt/Main).
Interested in the „art“ of human soul, she also studies psychology and
Graduated with a Master of Science (University of Basel).
Anke Riemenschneider has won several prizes in competitions, as a pianist as well as an author (literature prize of the border triangle (D, CH, F) readings, among others on SWR radio.
Trained as a classical pianist she first started to combine piano concerts with poems and stories
With the upcoming wide varieties of options as digital painting, new materials, and video art-work, Anke Riemenschneider extended her experimenting with visual art, word, and sound. Combining these three arts in different ways, while videoart and digital art play a primary role.
Anke Riemenschneider’s paintings initially intended just to complement the other two arts, quickly developed into an independent branch of her art creation.