Maria Harmony Gratia (1965-2024)

was a fine arts painter, stage actress and medical scientist. She operated an Institute for Holistic Medicine, while continuing the work of Dr. Max Wolf, the father of Enzyme Therapy, in the U.S. She won the International Hahnemuehle Watercolor Painting Competition twice in 2012 and 2015 and in 2019 she exhibited her work at the Santa Paula Art Museum in California, at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Casinos Austria and various locations in Kitzbuehel (Austria) and Malibu, CA.

Maria Harmony Gratia was born and raised in a small village in Austria but her love for traveling, as well as her interest in art, art history and medicine soon sent her out into the world.

Shadowing Dr. Klinghardt, Ms. Bruchmann went on to study also Astrophysics, Genetics, Kinesitherapy and Bioenergetics. In 2023 she published her first book on “The Liberation of Being”. (“Die Befreiung des Menschen”)

Equally ambitious about continuing her artistic ambitions she taught painting courses in oil, watercolor and pastel. With her art colleagues she often painted in the Leopold Museum and the Museum of Art History in Vienna. She was taught in oil painting at the museum of art history in Vienna, Austria. She was part of the Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore, the California Art Club (CAC), the American Impressionist Society (ais), the Oil Painters of America (OPA), Watercolor Society of America and the Austin Plein Air Painters (Texas).

Influenced by Camille Pisarro, Julian Onderdonk, Joaquin Sorolla, Alfred Sisley and Odilon Redon. Maria found immense joy in depictions and abstractions of nature and landscape.

She passed away peacefully in the arms of her family in May 2024.

“As a family, we are committed to carrying her creative legacy forward. It is an honor for us to take care in managing her estate with the love and respect her work deserves. We will keep her presence alive through the beauty she created.” - (Family Bruchmann)