Margarethe Held German nationality Born in Mettingen on August 14th, 1894 Dies in 1981

"God entrusted me with the mission of producing a body work for the simple people who are grateful for his omnipotence and his creations. People who believe in the existence of a Supreme Being. A God to whom we pray, and whose creations are visible through my drawings."

In 1925, Margarethe Held gets in touch with the spirits, communicating with her deceased husband and father. In 1950, at the age of fifty-six, she starts drawing: four hundred pastels in four months, all dictated by the spirits. Her drawings are responses to orders given by Siwa (the God of the Indians and the Mongolians) to tell other mortals that our universe has hidden secrets and miracles, that each being has its place and destiny and that nothing happens by mere accident.

Later the spirits will give her directions to write a book, in which she describes the messages she received and her trips to Jupiter and to other planets. Her faces are like magic masks representing the dead, the Gods, the spirits and the elves. The "good dead", for example, carry a magic and protective force, and the "bad dead" bring bad luck and tragedies.

"There are masculine Elves and feminine Elves. The former ones are for men, the latter for women. Elves are on earth to help people in their work. Some of the Elves are not very smart; some are a little smarter, other are extremely intelligent. Those from the first category help out with simple jobs, those from the third category, the most intelligent ones, help the scientists. Without them science would not exist, but these Elves also need the mind and the hands of man."

SEE ALSO: HELD (Margarethe). Unkontrollierbares Universum, Bilder und Worte eines Medium, Rainer, Berlin, 1977.

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