Artist
Arnulf Rainer
Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Berlin
Arnulf Rainer attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for only a few days. Today he is one of the most influential contemporary artists and one of the best-known Austrian painters. Rainer's work is determined by the search for new paths in painting and the constant development of new artistic strategies; extensive writings accompanied by performative works are also characteristic of his oeuvre. Arnulf Rainer created overpaintings as an art form in their own right and thus gave European art a new focus. After initially turning to Surrealism, Rainer approached Tachism and Informel. Since the early 1950s he has been painting over his own and other people's pictures and photographs. He is particularly known for his photo overpaintings of self-portraits, which are called Face Farces. Fellow artists, including Sam Francis, Georges Mathieu, Emilio Vedova and Victor Vasarely, also made their works available to him to paint over. The "Hiroshima Cycle", a series of drawings and photographs of the destroyed city, was shown in seventeen European cities from 1982.
Exhibitions and Events
2023