Pathbreaking Austrian Postwar Painter Arnulf Rainer Dies at 96

Arnulf Rainer, whose work provided crucial inspiration to the Viennese Actionists, died on December 18 at the age of ninety-six. His death was confirmed by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which represents him. Though best known for his psychologically intense “Übermahlungen,” or overpaintings, Rainer’s experiments touched on Surrealism, minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism, among other genres; throughout, he […]