Hidden Departure (Versteckter Abgang) from the series Fearful Hiding (Schreckversteck)

Arnulf Rainer is an Austrian painter known for his gestural abstraction and extensive use of overpainting, where successive layers of marks obscure and reveal underlying compositions. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, his practice evolved from expressive figuration toward radical abstraction, employing aggressive brushwork and erasure as formal and conceptual strategies. His work engages with the materiality of paint itself, treating the canvas as a site of continuous revision and psychological intensity.

Baden, Austria