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Visit: Dr. GeorgLooking Beyond - Youth, Old Age and Beyond Schafer (1926 - 1990)

Painter, author, and visionary



Dr. Georg Schafer was known by those who knew him by various names. Most people simple referred to him as Oma. Oma is the German name for “Granny” or Grandmother whom he loved very much. Oma is also a partial acronym from the Sanskrit mantra: “Om Ma Ni Ped Mi Hung”

Georg Schafer AKA Oma is the main artist who's paintings are shown on this site.

Oma was born in Leinefelde a town in the district of Eichsfeld in north western Thuringia Germany on Thursday March 25th, 1926. He died in Chatham, Massachusetts of heart failure on Thursday January 11th, 1990.




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He met and married a Guatemalan woman by the name of Nan Cuz (she was working as an assistant photographer at Die Welt) and they moved to Guatemala in 1973 where he further developed himself as an artist. After creating an art center in Panajachel, Guatemala he left Nan Cuz in 1978
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