- Arik Brauer
Arik Brauer (born 1929). Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer and stage designer. He resides in
Vienna and Ein-HodIsrael . Braueris a co-founder of theVienna School of Fantastic Realism , together with Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden.Erich 'Arik' Brauer is the child of Lithuanian Jewish emigrants. His post-war artistic training was in Vienna, under the supervision of
Albert Paris von Gütersloh . Gütersloh promoted Brauer's work within theVienna School of Fantastic Realism circle of artists, which had formed in the mid-1950s from a post-1946 Viennese surrealist group that had included Brauer along withEdgar Jené ,Ernst Fuchs ,Wolfgang Hutter ,Rudolf Hausner ,Anton Lehmden , andFritz Janschka . Despite the prevailing art-world taste for abstraction in the 1950s and early 60s, Brauer's work successfully blended high craftsmanship andsurrealism in ways that gained him international attention. In 1982 he had breakthrough solo shows in theUSA .Brauer has also designed architectural projects in Austria and Israel. The facades and interiors of his buildings are covered with fantastical mosaics, murals and painted tiles. He also designed 2002 the first United Buddy Bear for Austria.
Among his works are:
* Brauerhaus in Gumpendorferstraße, Vienna
* Pfarre am Tabor, Vienna
* RathausVoitsberg
* Kastra shopping mall,Haifa - facade of Kastra features Brauer's "Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden" is the largest mural of its kind in the world.His daughter is the well-known Jazz singer
Timna Brauer .ee also
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List of Austrian artists and architects External links
* [http://212.88.168.81/~brauer/arik/index.php Arik Brauer (site in German)]
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