Arnulf Rainer artist biography | original signed artworks & limited edition prints for sale

Arnulf Rainer is an Austrian painter. He is known worldwide for his informal, abstract pieces. Influenced by surrealism in his earlier years and having little to no artistic education, he is a natural talent. Arnulf Rainer’s early pieces were surrealistic depictions of underwater and other environmental scenes, done mostly in pencil. But he later strayed from surrealism and ventured into the real of experimental optical depictions. He returned to his earlier pieces, defacing them with harsh paint strokes and mixed textures. As Arnulf Rainer experimented with the destruction of form, these pieces became some of his most well renowned work. Arnulf Rainer’s work exhibits his various emotional states, as he collected work from the insane in the 1960s, and continued on to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs. In the mid sixties, Arnulf Rainer also became engulfed in religious theories, which was evident in his works from the time. From the seventies on, he worked mostly on retouching photographs of various subjects. Less

Arnulf Rainer is an Austrian painter. He is known worldwide for his informal, abstract pieces. Influenced by surrealism in his earlier years and having little to no artistic education, he is a natural talent. Arnulf Rainer’s early pieces were surrealistic depictions of underwater and other environmental scenes, done mostly in pencil. But he later strayed from surrealism and ventured into the real of experimental optical depictions. He returned to his earlier pieces, defacing them with harsh pa More

Austria, 1929 | male artist | Body Art | Zero Movement | Automatism | Art Informel | Gestural | Process Art | Actionism | Share on Facebook and Twitter | www.arnulf-rainer-museum.at