Arnulf Rainer

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Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929) is an Austrian painter noted for his abstract informal art. [1] [2]

Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the Hundsgruppe (dog group) together with Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, and Josef Mikl. After 1954, Rainer's style evolved towards Destruction of Forms, with blackenings, overpaintings, and maskings of illustrations and photographs dominating his later work. He was close to the Vienna Actionism, featuring body art and painting under the influence of drugs. He painted extensively on the subject of Hiroshima such as it relates to the nuclear bombing of the Japanese city and the inherent political and physical fallout.

In 1978, he received the Grand Austrian State Prize.[ citation needed ] In the same year, and in 1980, he became the Austrian representative at the Venice Biennale.[ citation needed ] From 1981 to 1995, Rainer held a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna - the same place where he aborted his own studies after three days, unsatisfied.

His works are shown in the Museum of Modern Art, the Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden Austria and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[ citation needed ] As the culmination of the appraisal of his work, the Arnulf Rainer Museum opened in New York City in 1993. His works have also continuously been shown at the European Cultural Centre's palazzos in Venice during the Biennale since 2011. [3] In the same year, he published the work Unfinished into Death ( ISBN   9789490784072) with the same organisation. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Russell, John (19 May 1989). "Review/Art; Arnulf Rainer: Backward to Respectability". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  2. ↑ Stiles, Kristine; Selz, Peter Howard (1996), Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings (6 ed.), University of California Press, p. 247, ISBN   978-0-520-20251-1
  3. ↑ "All hands up for Arnulf Rainer – great art(ist) in Venice » Artviva Italy Blog » The Original and Best Tours Italy". Artviva Italy Blog. 2011-07-12. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  4. ↑ "ARNULF RAINER- UNFINISHED INTO DEATH- DeLuxe Editi - Rainer- Arnulf - Jongh- Karlyn de - Sarah Gold - Luiscius Books". www.luiscius.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.

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