The Austrian artist Arik Brauer dies at the age of 92

BERLIN – Austrian artist Arik Brauer, known for his surrealist paintings and murals, has died at the age of 92.

The Austrian public broadcaster ORF reported on Monday that Brauer died in the middle of his family on Sunday evening. There was no cause of death.

Erich Brauer was born in 1929 into a Jewish family who had emigrated to Vienna from Russia. In his childhood he experienced the rise of National Socialism. His father died in a concentration camp, while Brauer himself survived the Holocaust in hiding.

After the war, Brauer studied art and music, two passions that he pursued throughout his life.

While Brauer’s colorful art was internationally successful, he was also known at home for his Austro-German writing.

Like his Austrian artist colleagues Ernst Fuchs and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Brauer dealt with architecture and designed the so-called Brauer-Haus in Vienna, the exterior of a church in the Austrian capital and wall paintings in a shopping center in the Israeli city of Haifa. .

“Arik Brauer is dead”, has tweeted Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. “Our country has produced few artists like him. Painter, musician, teacher – his talents and abilities can hardly be adequately listed. ”

Funeral arrangements were not immediately known.