Olga Schrüfer-Kozlova

Olga Schrüfer-Kozlova was born on a spring day, March 26, 1947, in the quiet town of Chomutov, in what was then West Bohemia. From her early years in the spa city of Karlovy Vary, she learned to listen to the world in more than one language — studying words, journeys, and the gentle economy of human encounters — while, at the same time, discovering another, deeper vocabulary in the studio of Professor Ludva: the language of color and form. In 1968, carried by the restless winds of the Prague Spring, she crossed borders and began a new life in Germany, continuing her artistic path with Professor Hinsch in Göttingen, where her painting matured into a personal dialogue with light itself.
Since the late 1970s, her work has traveled far beyond her own footsteps, finding homes in galleries and collections across Europe and North America — from the elegance of Monaco to the vast horizons of the United States and Canada. She has lived where the sun and the sea shape the soul, on the French Riviera and in Florida, before finally settling near the white cliffs of Étretat, where sky, ocean, and stone seem to breathe together.
For Olga, the landscape is never just a place — it is a luminous presence. Her canvases are bathed in a quiet radiance, where depth is woven from light and silence, and where Goethe’s words, “Colors are the acts and sufferings of light,” feel less like a quote and more like a promise.