Lotte Schulz

María Carlota "Lotte" Schultz (1925- January 22, 2016) was a Paraguayan artist. Schulz used several different media in her work, including ceramics, drawing, painting and printmaking. She is known for her innovative prints using cowhide. Schultz was also trained in art restoration. Schultz shared her skills with others as a teacher and worked as an artist throughout her life.

Biography Schulz was born as María Carlota Schulz in 1925 in Encarnación, Paraguay. Her father was an immigrant to Paraguay from Austro-Hungary and her mother was Paraguayan. She learned engraving from Livio Abramo at the Julián de la Herrería Print Workshop in Asunción in the 1950s. Schultz also studied ceramics with Edward G. Alien. In 2008, she was named a Maestra del Arte by the Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo. She was awarded the Orden Nacional al Mérito en el Grado de Gran Cruz in 2009.

Schulz died on January 22, 2016, in Luque.

Schultz has work in the permanent collections of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Asunción, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), and she has shown her work in North and South America, Europe and South Africa. Her art has also appeared on a Paraguayan postage stamp.