Sunday, January 6, 2019

Arik Brauer's 90th birthday on January 4th 2019

ARIK BRAUER

Arik Brauer's 90th birthday on January 4th 2019


For his birthday, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to Arik Brauer.
Since returning to my hometown of Vienna in 2011, 
I have had the opportunity several times to meet Arik Brauer.

Here are some souvenir photos:

Minoriten Monastery Tulln


This was the opening of the Arik Brauer exhibition on 26.9.2017 at 19:00
Minoriten Monastery Tulln, Minoritenpl. 1, 3430 Tulln on the Danube, Austria
Exhibition duration: 27.09.2017 to 05.11.2017

photos by Otto Rapp

Leopold Museum Vienna

Leopold Museum Vienna - I visited this exhibition on 12.2.2015 with Anni Fuchs




photos by Otto Rapp

With sister Lena Brauer


at the Palais Palffy in Vienna
photo by Cornelia Hagen-Fuchs


Dance partner - Lena Brauer and Arik Brauer
Still image from a YouTube video

Opening of the exhibition at Palais Palffy 29.9.2012 
Arik Brauer gave the opening address

29.9.2012 - photos by Otto Rapp

Arik Brauer Private Museum

On 16.2.2016 I visited the private museum

cloned in Photoshop by Otto Rapp
all photos below by Otto Rapp




On this occasion, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that his daughter 
Timna Brauer organizes guided tours in his private museum.

Arik Brauer Art Collection Guides 2019






For more than ten years, Prof. Arik Brauer has maintained a private collection in the basement of his Vienna villa in the Cottage Quarter. On about 200²m his most important oil paintings from the last decades, as well as his most recent ceramic sculptures are presented. A cross-section of his life's work, Fantastic Realism.
Arik Brauer, who celebrates his 90th birthday on 04.01.2019, continues to spend his days from early in the morning until the evening on the easels. Throughout his life as an artist he still works on several pictures simultaneously. He sees no reason to change this habit.
Source: Leuchtpunkte

Various photos

Obtained from Facebook - authors unknown

Prof. Gotthard Fellerer, Prof. Ernst Fuchs and Prof. Arik Brauer
in the Phantastenmuseum - at that time a long-term exhibition in the Figarosaal.
It is now discontinued.

Installation - Ernst Fuchs and Arik Brauer

Benedetto Fellin, Arik Brauer, Timna Brauer,
Ernst Fuchs and Emanuel Fuchs

Exhibition at the Belvedere Palace Vienna 2008
Arik Brauer - Anton Lehmden - Ernst Fuchs

Newspaper Articles



The artist celebrates his birthday on January 4, shaping the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and Austropop in the 1970s.
As before, color-intensive oil paintings are created. Arik Brauer: "I can not help it. Painting is my life. "......... read more in the Kurier (in German)


As a fantastic realist often smiled at, as a political songwriter co-founder of Austropops - the artist has remained an uncomfortable to this day. A political conversation for a birthday ................. read more in The Standard
Note: I find it interesting that The Standard has put my video in this article!

Newspaper archive from the previous year


Monday, March 26, 2018 by Heinz Sichrovsky

His father was murdered by the Nazis, now Arik Brauer must again see hatred of Jews from several sides: Germanic as well as Islamist. As a witness he unleashes debates.
..... read more News.at

VIDEOS (all videos are in German)

ARIK
Die wunderbar realistische Welt des phantastischen Herrn Brauer
1.04.2019

Incredible, the great universal artist, representative of the Viennese school of fantastic realism, songwriter, author, set designer and, and, and ... Arik Brauer is 90 years old!
Time for the Rabenhof to pay tribute to this Viennese suburban child, who has become a citizen of the world.
Who would be better suited than his daughter, the outstanding actress, singer and entertainer Ruth Brauer-Kvam.
A journey through time from the interwar period in Ottakring to Paris in the '68, from cycling trips to Africa to near-death experiences at Lake Neusiedl. Stories of love, nature and politics show the fantastic-realistic life of this exceptional artistic talent.
Premiere: 4 January 2019
with: Ruth Brauer-Kvam
Band: Carles Muñoz Camarero, Lukas Knöfler and Milos Todorovski
Book: Ruth Brauer-Kvam
Director: Thomas Gratzer
Musical direction: Kyrr. Kvam
Stage: Arik Brauer

Selected music video:


Arik Brauer - Köpferl in den Sand

Chronologically selected from my video archive:


Immigration is the problem - 11.03.2018

"Immigration is the problem": Arik Brauer is an artist and contemporary witness of National Socialism. He sees less in Nazi songbooks as an anti-Semitic danger, than in the immigration from the Arab world.

Five years ago:
Cultural Monday, November 10, 2014, ORF2 - Leopold Museum



Arik Brauer, Arik Brauer in Autumn, 2014 © private collection Arik Brauer

Brauer im Herbst is the title of the self-portrait painted especially for the exhibition. The Leopold Museum dedicates a retrospective exhibition to painters, authors and songwriters, stage designers and house designers, but above all to social critics and environmentalists. ....... read more

Ten years ago:
Arik Brauer at Wir sind Kaiser

Determined by the "lucky machine" to lead with his majesty an artistic discourse, the Austrian painter and founder of Fantastic Realism, Arik Brauer.


I hope you enjoyed my contribution - and maybe, if you are in Vienna, 
see if you can visit his art in his private museum ➧ Events 




Commemorating the 87th birthday of Ernst Fuchs in the Fuchs Villa - 2017
Photo by Peter Prehsl