ARNULF RAINER

Arnulf Rainer was one of the most significant and uncompromising artistic personalities in Austrian and international art after 1945. Over more than seven decades, the artist, born in 1929 in Baden bei Wien and who died at the end of 2025 in Upper Austria, repeatedly explored the boundaries of painting and, as an innovator, left a lasting mark on international art history. Since the beginning of his artistic career, and in convinced resistance to all the brutal restrictions of National Socialism, Rainer was always in search of independence and self-reliance. With the radical "Übermalungen" of the 1950s he achieved international renown and thereby secured an important place in international art history after 1945. These works impressively point to his artistic stance, which rejects every convention.