Biography
Markus Meurer was born in 1959 at the foot of the castle ruin in Monreal in the Eifel in Germany. In his parents’ house, which his grandparents had built partly into the mountain, he grew up close to nature in an extended family.
While his grandfather aroused the boy’s interest in technics and imaginative adventures by telling him stories of Jules Verne and Wernher von Braun, his father opened up the beauty of nature for him and moulded his enthusiasm for motorbikes.
As a child Markus Meurer learned from his father, who was an autodidactic artist himself, the handling of tongs, knives and other tools, and the working with wire, metal, stone and wood. His parents’ house, which had already been highly decorated by his father with carved birds, sculptures made of wood and stone, he turned into a total work of art creating columns, ceiling-paintings and big sculptures made of different materials.
After his parents death Markus Meurer, being an idiosyncratic artist, more and more got under pressure in the municipality of Monreal so that in 2006 he finally moved to England with his English wife. From December 2006 until February 2008 they lived in England.
Meanwhile the municipality of Monreal declared his house uninhabitable and destroyed it in autumn 2007 in spite of many protests of an international circle of friends.
Markus Meurer came back to Germany in 2008 and since then he lives and works in the Lower Rhine area.