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Arnulf Rainer

Arnulf Rainer (Born 1929) is active/lives in Austria.  Arnulf Rainer is known for Abstract painting, prints, photography.

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 Arnulf Rainer (1929-)

Austrian painter, printmaker and photographer.  He began painting as a self-taught artist in the mid-1940s, after leaving school, and first came into contact with contemporary art through a British Council exhibition in 1947 that included work by Paul Nash, Francis Bacon, Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore and Edward Burra.  Around this time he produced his first portraits, such as Rainer Dying (pencil, 1949; Vienna, Helmut Weis priv. col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 10).  While attending the Staatsgewerbeschule at Villach from 1947 to 1949 he became interested in theories of Surrealism.  He had almost no academic training as an artist, leaving the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna in 1949 after only one day because of an argument with a teacher, and lasting little longer at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in 1950.  From 1948 to 1951 he produced Surrealistic drawings representing underwater scenes and mystical   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10052 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Arnulf Rainer  Born:  1929 - Baden near Vienna
Known for:  Abstract painting, prints, photography
Name variants:  Arnulf Rainier

 Arnulf Rainer (1929-)

Austrian painter, printmaker and photographer.  He began painting as a self-taught artist in the mid-1940s, after leaving school, and first came into contact with contemporary art through a British Council exhibition in 1947 that included work by Paul Nash, Francis Bacon, Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore and Edward Burra.  Around this time he produced his first portraits, such as Rainer Dying (pencil, 1949; Vienna, Helmut Weis priv. col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 10).  While attending the Staatsgewerbeschule at Villach from 1947 to 1949 he became interested in theories of Surrealism.  He had almost no academic training as an artist, leaving the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna  ...  Displaying 750 of 10052 characters.

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