“When a benevolent fate threw me on the rocky and arid shores of a greek [sic] island with roman [sic] legislation, I emerged from the waves, purified, beautified and washed of all worry. Finally escaped from these metropoles gone miserable and graced by the wages of former fear, I got myself a meager Kingdom, built my house, planted the trees and conceived my child in proper marriage. But, no sooner had I let out first sighs, due to a country life altogether too soothing that I found myself attached by an irresistable and tenacious sexual pulse, and convinced, that such late libertinism would cause me not only physical humiliation, I summoned all my talents into play, thus saving considerable expense, I plunged into the solitary and painful work of sublimation.”

Thus runs Michael Würthle’s foreword to a catalogue of his hilarious, aleinated, alternately sexually frustrated, sexually robust, sexually exhausted, and sexually resigned, obsessive, pen-and-ink drawings. The style varies considerably from piece to piece, but the wit is constant. The book also serves as a catalogue from a showing of the drawings at museums and galleries in Geneva, Graz, and Athens in 1996.
In German, English, and French.