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MARTIN DE SAINT MUERELL

Lives and works in Hundsheim, Austria
http://www.martin-mueller.cc/

Art and creativity has accompanied me during my whole and they said: “Because these drawings are the most
life. It was lucky that I could grow up in an Art minded beautiful depictions of women I have ever seen!” I carried
family and later in a wonderful commune. Some of my on asking: “What are you going to do with these erotic

ancestors were painters and sculptors (e.g. Meinrad drawings?” they said: “I will place them in my bedroom!”.
Guggenbichler, my parents had extraordinary artistic Recently a visitor at one of my exhibitions said that my
abilities. erotic drawings actually are altarpieces. At first I thought:

I see myself in the European tradition of Shamans and “Why this opinion?” But when you look at these erotic
Druids, who were at the same time Artists, Teachers and drawings, he certainly is right! Altarpieces from the
Healers for the population. Consequently, in the following second, suppressed half of heaven. Apparently, the brave
tradition of Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, female buyers of my erotic posters equally are longing
who could and had to take their responsibilities in the for this half of heaven.

most erotic society in the world – namely in and around In my shapes, I try to reach a maximum of harmony and
Vienna. They showed the only healing and meaningful way freedom. Frankly, the shapes often take a run in the deep
of life, namely in the direction of consciously experiencing center to finally reach unconceived heights and distances

love and sexuality. (e.g. it can clearly be seen in the sculpture “Hand C3” as
The idea for my erotic works came independently, and well as in the completely free-flowing long hair usually
also from female artist colleagues. I would not have had depicted in my erotic compositions of women.
the idea otherwise. In all of my work you find certain dynamics, also a
While selling posters of my erotic drawings, I initially characteristic factor of my youth; the population was
ARTIST thought that the male population will buy them. That intensively occupied with rebuilding the destroyed

was a mistake. Women bought them. I asked them why country, to make it aesthetic and interesting again.
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