The Artwork of Arik Brauer
Title: Rainmaker of Carmel
Brauer, Arik [Erich]
* Vienna, 4 Jan 1929). Austrian painter, printmaker, stage designer and
singer. He studied from 1945 to 1951 with Albert Paris G�tersloh at the
Akademie der Bildenden K�nste in Vienna, where his colleagues included
ernest Fuchs , Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden , with
whom he developed the style known as Fantastic Realism. He first
exhibited his works with the Art-Club at the Zedlitzhalle. In 1950 he cycled
from Vienna to Paris, also travelling to Spain, North Africa, Israel and
Yemen. During this period he struggled to earn a living as a folk singer.
From 1958 he lived and worked as an artist in Paris and from 1964 he
divided his time between Vienna and the house he had built and decorated
himself in Ein Hod, an artists� village in Israel.
Brauer�s early paintings were strongly influenced at first by the peasant
paintings of Pieter Bruegel I in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and
then by the work of Hieronymus Bosch; Brauer developed an anecdotal
style, mainly depicting rustic landscape genre scenes. After 1955, following
a visit to Israel, he became interested in Persian and Indian miniatures; their
influence introduced orientalizing elements and brilliant colours into his
work, seen for example in Jericho 1956�7; Basle, Germaine Liechti priv.
col., see Brauer, 1984, i, pp. 76�7) and in the Rainmaker of Carmel
1964; Hamburg, Rolf Gillhausen priv. col., see Brauer, 1984, i, pp.
250�51).
Brauer often used Jewish and Old Testament traditions as the basis of
his works, which show a fairy-tale world, as is true of his portfolios of
colour etchings. He also designed stage sets, for example for the Magic
Flute 1977; Paris, Th��tre National de l�Op�ra), and is a renowned and
successful singer of folk songs.
WRITINGS
Arik Brauer: Das Runde fliegt: Texte, Lieder, Bilder Munich, 1983)
Arik Brauer: Werkverzeichnis, 3 vols Dortmund, 1984)
PRINTS
Les Travaux des champs Paris, 1967)
Aus den Spr�chen Salomos Vienna, 1970�71)
Chass. Erz�hlungen Paris, 1973)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Die Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus exh. cat.,
Hannover, Kestner-Ges., 1965)
W. Schmied: Brauer Vienna, 1972)
W. Koschatzky: Brauer Graphik das graphische Werk, 1971�1974)
Glarus, 1974)
Werke: Die Verfolgung des j�dischen Volks, Zyklus, ab 1973;
Menschenrechte, 1975 Zyklus von Farbradierungen); B�hnenbilder
u. Kost�me zur "Zauberfl�te" von W. A. Mozart an der Pariser Oper,
1975; Die Ritter von der Reuthenstopf, 1986 Kinderbuch); Sesam
�ffne dich, 1989 Fernsehspiel mit Tochter Timna B.); A.-B.-Haus in
Wien 6, Gumpendorfer Stra�e, fertiggestellt 1993.
T. Flemming Editor.), Arik Brauer - Werkverzeichnis, Vienna, 1984.
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