Arik Brauer, an Austrian artist known for his stunning paintings and murals, has died at the age of 92.
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PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 05:38 PM IST
Arik Brauer, an Austrian artist known for his stunning paintings and murals, has died at the age of 92.
Austrian public broadcaster ORF reported Monday that Brauer died late Sunday surrounded by family. He gave no cause of death.
Erich Brauer was born in 1929 to a Jewish family who had emigrated from Russia to Vienna, but became a National Socialist as a child. His father died in a concentration camp while Brauer himself survived the Holocaust by going into hiding.
After the war, Brauer studied art and music, dual interests that he pursued throughout his life.
While Brauer’s international art flourished internationally, at home he was widely known for his Austro-German songwriting.
Like Austrian artists Ernst Fuchs and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Brauer later tried his hand at architecture,
designing something called the Brauer House in Vienna, outside a church in the Austrian capital and murals on a shopping center in the Israeli city of Haifa.
“Arik Brauer is dead,” said Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen.
“There are very few artists in our country. Painter, musician, teacher – his talents and abilities can hardly be listed appropriately. ”Funeral was not known immediately.
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