Doris Mauser, Mouthpainter (Paraplegic)
1948-Doris Mauser was born on the 20th of March, 1948 in Heilbronn. At the age of 13 years she comes down with multiple sclerosis. She finished the high school, studied psychology in Heidelberg and worked till 1983 as a psychologist. Already during the study she depended on the wheel chair, however, since the early 1980s years her arms and hands are also paralyzed. During an interview she knows: „The wheel chair is not so bad, much more difficultly was for me the resignation of the hands.“
Doris Mauser started to paint in 1986 her water colors. Sceneries, portraits and above all plants – in particular roses – count to her preferential motives. Their restricted movement radius makes the oral painter, paint compact pictures, and thus tender miniatures originate with fine brushstrokes. For pictures in stronger tones she uses oil colours or acrylic colours.
Since 1993 Doris Mauser is Stipendiary of the Association of the mouth-painting and foot-painting artist worldwide.
Some exampels of her works of Art
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„The beauty in the painting is that, besides, one forgets himself – by the distraction even pains become less“, says the oral painter whose strength is sufficient by the progressive illness today only for few hours of seats on the day.
A big project was for Doris Mauser her work on the book „The Schwetzinger garden and the writers“, this has appeared in 2003. Their affectionately painted watercolors are complemented by writer's texts which her husband Peter Koppenhöfer has put together for the book. A similar common book project is about the Heidelberg castle in work. „One day in which I have not painted is a lost day for me“, says Doris Mauser.
