(born in Baden near Vienna 1929)
„Braune Übermalung“, signed and dated Rainer 57 on the reverse, oil on board, 107 x 85.5 cm

Exhibited and published:
Arnulf Rainer, Kunstverein Hamburg, 1971, p.23 (full-page Illustration), cat.no. 17
Arnulf Rainer. Retrospektive 1950-1977, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, 1977, Seite 64 (Illustration), cat. No. 24.

Kunsthalle Bern, 1977
Städtishce Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München , 1977
p. 49 (full-page Illustration), cat. No. 73

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1981- reverse label
Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1981
Museum moderner Kunst /Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts Wien, 1981
Arnulf Rainer. Abgrundtiefe-perspektiefe, Retrospektive 1947-1997, Kunsthalle Krems, 1997, p. 93 (full-page Illustration)
Arnulf Rainer, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1989, cat. No. 11 10 (full-page Illustration)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1989
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 1989
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 1990

Provenance:
Collection Dr. Heliod Spiekermann, Haan
Private Collection, Germany

“Sei gegrüßt Gigant”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser an Rainer in einem Telegramm zu einer Ausstellungseröffnung

“Greetings Giant"
Friedensreich Hundertwasser to Rainer in a telegram for an exhibition opening

hermann nitsch
arnulf rainer
...
1
the fascination that rainer's work exerts on me has accompanied and determined my whole life, almost no other contemporary artist has impressed me so much. I openly confess that I owe him a lot as a painter,
I have learnt a lot from him, rainer has always been the measure of what is achievable in this discipline for me. He often accompanied my own development as a painter as an overpowering figure from whom I could not escape. I know that I cannot surpass him as a painter, and only through the structure of my overall work of art in theatre can I achieve something similarly great.
At the end of the fifties, rainer's work was regarded as the latest and most radical in modern painting.
For some young artists and intellectuals he was considered a insider’s secret, for the austrian public he was the number one bourgeois terror. The fact that a radical newcomer in austria turns into a court jester has always been the case and will probably remain so forever...

14
I consider rainer to be one of the most important artists of our time.
From: Arnulf Rainer- abgrundtiefe. perspektiefe, retrospektive 1947-1997, Kunsthalle Krems , 1997