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Arnulf Rainer
born 1929, Baden
Arnulf Rainer, born in Baden in 1929, is one of the founders of the Art Informel movement in Austria and a painter of incontrovertible significance. The “overpaintings” he developed in the 1950s brought him recognition at home and abroad, and fame among his international colleagues. His intensive search for new ways of painting and constant development of new artistic strategies, accompanied by performative works and a comprehensive body of writing, make Arnulf Rainer one of the most influential contemporary artists alive today.
In recognition of his artistic successes, Rainer was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Painting in 1978, and in 1981 was appointed to lead a masterclass as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The same year, the city of Frankfurt awarded him the Max Beckmann Prize, and he was admitted to the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1972, 1977 and 1982 he presented his works at the documenta exhibition in Kassel, and he represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 1978 and 1980. In 1989 he was given a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. To mark his 70th birthday, both the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Kunstforum in Vienna hosted major exhibitions. Since 2002, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich has had a room dedicated to his work, and in 2009 the Arnulf Rainer Museum opened in the artist’s hometown of Baden, near Vienna.
The Gurk Abbey
Carinzia – Topografia Superiore
Overpainting with ink and wax crayons on a reprint by Ferdinand Ruck / Johann Ziegler 1795
signed, exhibited by the Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt and the Galerie Ulysses, Vienna 1992
abgebildet in: Carinzia / Venezia: Topografia Superiore, Fig. 19
31,7 x 41,7 cm
Overpainting with ink and wax crayons on a reprint by Ferdinand Ruck / Johann Ziegler 1795
signed, exhibited by the Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt and the Galerie Ulysses, Vienna 1992
abgebildet in: Carinzia / Venezia: Topografia Superiore, Fig. 19
31,7 x 41,7 cm
The Gurk Abbey
Carinzia – Topografia Superiore
Overpainting with ink and wax crayons on a reprint by Ferdinand Ruck / Johann Ziegler 1795
signed, exhibited by the Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt and the Galerie Ulysses, Vienna 1992
abgebildet in: Carinzia / Venezia: Topografia Superiore, Fig. 19
31,7 x 41,7 cm
Overpainting with ink and wax crayons on a reprint by Ferdinand Ruck / Johann Ziegler 1795
signed, exhibited by the Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt and the Galerie Ulysses, Vienna 1992
abgebildet in: Carinzia / Venezia: Topografia Superiore, Fig. 19
31,7 x 41,7 cm