Arnulf Rainer, (born 8 December1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art.
In his early years, Rainer was influenced by the Surrealism. In 1950, he founds the Hundsgruppe (dog group) together with Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer and Josef Mikl. After 1954, Rainers style evolves towards Destruction of Forms, i.e. 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 drug influence.
ArnulfRainer is one of the few world-renowned contemporary Austrian artists and he is also one of the most innovative.
Rainer's art is to be understood within his framework: it is an expedition into the search of causes and limitations of artistic expression, a discovery, an expansion, a visualization of the instinctive and behavioral structures of the subconscious within the paths of self-realization.
ArnulfRainer was born in Baden near Vienna in 1929.
ArnulfRainer, (born 8 December 1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art.
In his early years, Rainer was influenced by the Surrealism.
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.
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