Daniel Josef Maier
Artist Biography / Artist Statement
Grounded in my earlier career as a physician, my practice weaves the voices that inhabit every human life into vivid, prismatic constellations of color. In the ongoing series Mosaic of Souls, I break and realign oil layers the way experience cracks and reforms identity, allowing the possibility of renewal. Each fragment is chosen intuitively, guided by a restless urge to experiment, fail, and iterate until the painting begins to breathe on its own.
Viewers often describe sensing their own untold stories shimmering between the pieces; I see the work as a mirror that invites radical self-recognition and collective empathy. Ultimately, I paint to show that wholeness is not the absence of fracture but the music created when broken parts learn to sing together, in shimmering dialogue with the viewing soul.
List of Previous Exhibitions
2025
Art Austria – Vienna, Austria
ARTMUC International Art Fair – Munich, Germany
Graz Art Week – Graz, Austria
Art at the Park, Spring Edition – Vienna, Austria
2024
Graz Art Week – Graz, Austria
2023
Fundraising Auktion, Dorotheum – Salzburg, Austria
Personale – Primaten der Kunst, UptownArt – Graz, Austria
2022
United Art Vienna – Schlumberger Kellerwelten, Vienna, Austria