Mouth & Foot Painters (Pty) Ltd. Founder

The founder: Prof. A. E. Stegmann

Founder and first president of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists of the World.

Born on March 4, 1912 in Darmstadt, Germany. Died on
September 5, 1984 in Deisenhofen near Munich.

At the age of two A(rnulf) E(rich) Stegmann lost the use of
both arms and hands from polio. At that young age his artistic
talents were already recognized and supported by his teachers.
He was able to paint and spatula in oil at the same degree as
he mastered water colors. He could draw on stone with a feather
or an engraving tool as well as make linoleum cuts, wood cuts
and sculptures -- all of which he did with the tool in his mouth.

Stegmann always rearched out to other mouth and foot painters and in 1953/54 he organized the group "Lodge of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists" as a type of artists community. From there, the international "Association of Mouth- and Foot Painting Artists" was formed and A. E. Stegmann was voted its president for life.