Peter Schmidt was an artist and teacher in England. He was born in 1931 and died while on holiday in Tenerife, Spain of a heart attack in 1980. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, and may have had associations with Mark Boyle and Tom Phillips. Wikipedia
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