Bernie Luther was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria, built his first tattoo machine as a 16-year-old punk and has never stopped tattooing since. Finding out that his hobby could help finance his travels, he went on the road throughout Europe in the mid-eighties, opening his first studio, Tattoo Demon, in 1987. By the end of the 1980s, his travels had brought him to the United States, and in 1994, Bernie opened another shop in Bali that he co-owned for ten years. Participation in countless tattoo conventions around the world resulted in the accumulation of dozens of awards that were displayed in the entrance room of Vienna’s oldest running shop. To celebrate 40 years of tattooing, Tribal Publishing presents Bernie’s first book, “Tattoo Demon,” with a selection of tattoos, paintings, photographs and gig posters.
