Sepp of Vienna

”Since my early childhood, drawing has been my biggest passion and strength. While in kindergarten it was still cars and the fascination of the 1950’s; it was during the time of Catholic boarding school that scenes of suffering at the crucifixion of Christ, surrounded by muscular Roman soldiers, prevailed in my study books.

Being a late-bloomer, I came out at 24, when I quickly found my sexual preference to be leather and S&M.

For friends of the LMC Vienna, as well as other international leather clubs and organizations, I have produced numerous works of art. I have created a small, exclusive Fine-Art-Edition of my works especially for admirers of men, bears, leather, rubber, uniforms, and S&M. Original prints are produced in a very limited number, printed on heavy handmade paper (format ca. 38 x 56 cm / 15 in x 22 in) and can also be purchased as single pieces.

Also available are handsigned posters, greeting cards, an anniversary- and a perpetual calendar, as well as extensive catalog detailing my work. Definitely a nice gift for friends, masters, slaves or just yourself.”

And when you like you can visit my "other" site:
www.engelmaier-graphic-art.at

”Since my early childhood, drawing has been my biggest passion and strength. While in kindergarten it was still cars and the fascination of the 1950’s; it was during the time of Catholic boarding school that scenes of suffering at the crucifixion of Christ, surrounded by muscular Roman soldiers, prevailed in my study books. Being a late-bloomer, I came out at 24, when I quickly found my sexual preference to be leather and S&M. For friends of the LMC Vienna, as well as other international leather clubs and organizations, I have produced numerous works of art. I have created a small, exclusive Fine-Art-Edition of my works especially for admirers of men, bears, leather, rubber, uniforms, and S&M. Original prints are produced in a very limited number, printed on heavy handmade paper (format ca. 38 x 56 cm / 15 in x 22 in) and can also be purchased as single pieces. Also available are handsigned posters, greeting cards, an anniversary- and a perpetual calendar, as well as extensive catalog detailing my work. Definitely a nice gift for friends, masters, slaves or just yourself.” And when you like you can visit my "other" site: www.engelmaier-graphic-art.at

		Sepp - very private. June 2011. In recent weeks, my life has changed abruptly. My husband Frank died on 26th of May suddenly and unexpectedly at the hotel during his working mission in Tyrol. After a heart muscle inflammation, he was in treatment and would have 16th of June had an additional check in the hospital in Vienna. In my home town Maissau in Lower Austria found at 11th of June the adoption and urn burial in the crypt instead of my family. At the funeral there were over 250 friends from near and far, from Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Eindhoven, Cologne, Zurich, etc., came and it rained a sea of roses. From the flood of responses to the death of my husband, I´m overwhelmed! Frank was born in Dresden and we met in Vienna in 1996 and 1997, he moved in with me. On 1st December 2010 we got married. In August 2011 we wanted to make a big party with family and friends. Heart and suddenly everything is different. Heart of a sudden, two lives have changed.
		How beautiful we had come up with the 115 +1 - Frank would have been on 12.08.2011 forties, I was still in the Sixtieth, fifteen years of combined "roller coaster" and finally almost a year "partnered". The fate decided otherwise. Memories. Be it the bottle of "Krug"; that gave us my cousin and his wife so touching gift on the occasion of our partnering, which is in the kitchen cupboard where I gather every morning my breakfast dishes, or when I go into the garage and Franks bike is without license plate now next to my place, and there are still many moments each day of remembrance. The bed beside me is empty - still empty - unused. And somehow I think what did I do, write thank you emails, is that it? When the movie is over? Is not it just a bad nightmare? No, it´s just "shit". You meet many friends, all concerned are touching, but no one can replace the one, the beloved son of a bitch. This is one that makes itself allegations. You could not even tell one last time. Not "goodbye", not "I love you" say. Or as we used to sometimes "I love you nevertheless!". Somebody said: What should I have done wrong that had happened. I´ve done something wrong, except that I´ve loved a man as he was?
		Photos and photo on the top of the webpage photographed by Werner Friedl. Top Left: last photo together for Mothers Day on 8 May 2011 in Maissau. To the right of: Frank when cooking our Christmas dinner in 2010 Left: Sepp in February 2011.
		Many thanks to Werner Friedl for this great photos! Just two weeks before my 60 birthday. http://foto.casaberg.at Yes and for those who want´s to know exactly: next to the pencil my second favorite instrument in my right hand - my flogger ;-)
		For now more than 14 years Sepp lives with his partner Frank from Dresden in Vienna. The 1st of December 2010 was a very special day for both! The registry office in Vienna, quietly held its partnering. Only our neighbor, a photographer was there and has kept the whole thing in pictures.
		Sepp and Frank in August 2010.
		Social responsibility in the fetish scene and social areas are a priority for these two motorbike and bicycle riders. Sepp is a co-founder of the gay leather and motorbike community – LMC Vienna. Left: Sepp on his booths at FolsomEurope in Berlin, September 2009. And with Frank on New Years Eve 2009.
		Left: Sepp and Frank at the Stuttgart Baermeeting and at the Octoberfest, September 2009. fotos taken by VVG-Cologne.
		Left: Sepp and Frank in front of the "Graukogelhütte" in Badgastein. Right: Sepp and Frank in front of the waterfall in Badgastein. August 2009.
		Left: Sepp in July on the ECMC BikeRun 2009 in Denmark. Right: Frank and Sepp by the North Sea.
		Up left: Our biker group on the ECMC BikeRun 2009. Down left: Frank, Sepp, Patrick and Alex on the way from Denmark to Sweden. In the background you can see the Oeresund bridge. Right: Sepp by the citywalk in Cobenhaven 2009.

		Left: Sepp and Frank in Amsterdam 2009. Right: Frank and Sepp in Scheveningen 2009 before the attack in Brussels. You can read more under NEWS.
		Left: Sepp and Frank in Barcelona 2007. Right: Frank and Sepp in Praha 2008.
		Exhibition at Mr B in Amsterdam 2008. Once again a guest of Franc. Dank je wel!
		Two pictures taken at the Rainbow-Parade 2008, the gay pride (CSD) of Vienna. This year for our first time without our motorbikes, but together in a buggy, in front of the LMC Vienna track. On this we had demonstrate about the gay right situation in Austria. "Sepp & Frank - unmarried! 12 years together – 12 years no right."
		Left: Frank on his “Bulldog” next to Sepp on his “Dragstar” shot during the Rainbow-Parade, the gay pride of Vienna.
		Left: Sepp on the mountain "Großglockner".
		Left: Snapshot at a friends place, next to a black and white shot of both of us, done by a friend of ours, the Italian photographer Tiziano Bedin. Thank you!
		These photos (left 2006, right 2005) was taken by the photographer Viktor & Volker from Cologne. Thanks!
		The Virgin & The Lion 2007 Who´s the virgin?
		2002 at IML in Chicago. I´m happy to met "The Heroes of Gay Male Erotic Art". From right to left: "The Hun", Marc DeBauch, Uli of Berlin and I. The neighboure on my booth was the famous artist "Leon".