From the beginning he was reluctant to go with the flow. Throughout his life, Arnulf Rainer was looking for radical and new artistic solutions – and found them in his art. This not only rejected existing norms of painting, but also erased contents and forms and thus created new ones – indulging in existentialist questions with full force. As his family has now announced, the “over-painter”, the enfant terrible and most important Austrian avant-gardist of the post-war period, died on December 18th at the age of 96.
