This is Arnulf Rainer

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

Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his in front years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the Hundsgruppe (dog group) together in the same way as 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 sophisticated work. He was near to the Vienna Actionism, featuring body art and painting below the pretend to have 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 embassy and inborn fallout.

In 1978, he traditional the Grand Austrian State Prize.^{[citation needed]} In the similar 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 similar place where he aborted his own studies after three days, unsatisfied.

His works are shown in the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.^{[citation needed]} As the height of the appraisal of his work, the Arnulf Rainer Museum opened in New York City in 1993. His works have also all the time been shown at the European Cultural Centre’s palazzos in Venice during the Biennale before 2011. In the thesame year, he published the work Unfinished into Death (ISBN 9789490784072) with the similar organisation.

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