"Art is an anthropological experiment for me. A person is just a lump: a lump of nucleus and possibilities, of which he foresees little and many of which he refuses a priori ... But there is art with its imaginativeness to make up for it. It extends the dimensions of men by remembering the stages of evolution. It makes a development possible, in which all nuclei experience a first clarification and only after that, a social rededication becomes mankind-like."
Arnulf Rainer
Born 1929 in Baden, Austria.
1972, 1977 and 1982 participated in the Documenta in Kassel.
1981 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The Austrian painter and drawer elevated over-painting as his own form of art which made him the most internationally well-known artist of post World War II period from Austria.
Lives and works in Enzenkirchen, Austria and Vornbach near Passau.