!!!Brauer, Arik Erich

b. Vienna, Jan. 4, 1929, painter, graphic artist, stage designer, 
singer and poet. 1945-1951 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under 
R. C.  Andersen and A. P.  Guetersloh. On his long journeys 
(esp. Orient) and his stays abroad (Paris, Israel), B. mainly made a 
living as a singer. Painting did not become his main occupation until 
1960. Strengthened common artistic interests with his friends of the  
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, with whom he had been friends 
while still at the Academy, in the "Art-Club" and the "Hundsgruppe". 
Became one of the "fathers of Austropop" in 1967 with his 1st record 
of songs in Viennese dialect. His work is characterised by fine detail 
("coats of paint") and the incorporation of current political events 
into dream-like paintings with a fairy-tale atmosphere; the influence 
of P. Bruegel the Elder (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) and of 
oriental miniature painting is also evident. From 1985 to 1997 teacher 
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

!Works
Die Verfolgung des juedischen Volks, series, from 1973 on; 
Menschenrechte, 1975 (series of colour etchings); stage sets and 
costumes for the "Magic Flute" by W. A. Mozart at the Paris 
Opera, 1975; Die Ritter von der Reuthenstopf, 1986 (children´s 
book); Sesam oeffne dich, 1989 (television play with his daughter 
Timna B.); A. B. House in Vienna's 6%%sup th/%  district, 
Gumpendorfer Strasse, finished 1993.

!Literature
T. Flemming (ed.), A. B., Werkverzeichnis, 1984.


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