Arnulf Rainer *

(born Baden near Vienna in 1929) “Hochzeitsmarsch”, 1950s, signed Rainer, oil, wax crayon on canvas, 41 x 28 cm, framed, (K)

According to information from the owner, Rainer named the work “Hochzeitsmarsch” (wedding march) on re-evaluating it.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Lower Austria

Apocalyptic appearances and “Grundmalerei” (ground painting): Today there can hardly be anything else but to demonstrate death and the end of this world, to sign the final signature. The sun turns black, what remains for us else than to fall down, to hide and to wait.
A. Rainer 1958

A self-foreward: My commentaries are not important genuine utterings, instead they are tricks and functional texts, to avoid even worse interpretations by others. They arose from the need to call up misunderstandings, serving simultaneously to create my own suggestive slogans... A. Rainer 1979 Texts from: Arnulf Rainer “Aller Anfang ist schwer”,
Frühe Arbeiten 1949–1961, published by Arnulf Rainer Museum DuMont Verlag, 2009

Znalkyněi: Mag. Elke Königseder