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Jean Pierre Muhlstein (Uccle, 11 November 1947- Alicante, 25 July 2021) Was a Remarkable photographer and multifaceted creative artist, He defines himself as belonging to the "Woodstock Generation", and stood out in the field of painting, music or poetry, being a successor to the concept of "Art Total" in the middle of the 20th century.

Biography
Born in Uccle, Brussels in 1947 he grew up amidst a wealthy family. His mother, an opera dancer, instilled in him a taste for music and other aspects of art, while his father, a businessman vintage car racer, provided his impetus and the courage to travel around the world at a very early age. When he was only 7 years old, he received his first camera as a birthday present, while taking private musical theory and piano lessons in his hometown. Later, at the age of 14, he founded his first Rock & Roll band, "The flying stones", along with some school friends. After a brief stay in the army, he went on to work in the NATO documentation and archives center.

Although at first he stood out mainly as a documentary photographer, his first works at the age of 19 focused on aerial photography over the skies of Los Angeles and San Diego in California for promotional purposes and real estate sales acquiring his taste for landscape photography. He was later sent as a documentary photographer to the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight in 1970. Other travels include the archipelago of the Galapagos Islands in 1970, Quito in Ecuador or the Dominican Republic in the 1970s.His work for magazines such as National Geographic, Playboy, Playman, Fascination Le Musée secret de L'Erotisme or the publication of books of erotic stories "Et les dieux firent l'amour" in 1979, "Flash Back" in 1980, or "Tropical dreams" at the beginning of the 1980s stand out.

His passion for photography and his first collaborations for some local erotic magazines led him to immerse himself in the world of urban erotic photography in a contextual framework of California in the early 70's in the USA, where he created photographic environments with a highly sexual content but without ever reaching pornography. At the same time he captured daily life and everyday reality through photos taken on the street in the centre of big capitals such as Paris, Brussels, New York or London.

Towards the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's he immersed himself into the world of art as well: elaborating his own Modern Art techniques within the "Total Art" variant, creating photographic paintings with glow up effects from paintings on glass that he made using coloured pigments and other fluids of his own elaboration, always highlighting the magenta range of colours, An example of this is his large photographic mural "Universal Matter" from 1977, among his paintings we can find "The Lady of Malmö" or "Apocalypse Alicante" among others.

As a poet he enjoyed combining underground poetry mixed with the influences of bossa nova sounds and chords. In 2006 he produced his first long play "Tropical".

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