Gerwald rockenschaub biography sampler
The work of Austrian artist Gerwald Rockenschaub is closely associated with the Neo-Geo movement of the s, exploring the intersections of abstract....
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Gerwald Rockenschaub was born in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria, in 1952.
He studied history, philosophy, psychology and education at the University of Vienna and until 1982 art education at the University (then College) of Applied Arts with Herbert Tasquil. Since the 1980s, the artist has been active as painter, musician and techno DJ.
In 1993 Rockenschaub, together with Andrea Fraser and Christian Philipp Müller, contributed to the Austrian pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia, Italy. In 2007, he was represented at documenta 12. In 2007 Rockenschaub received the Fred Thieler Prize for painting.
This is a collection of works by Gerwald Rockenschaub (born ), who is currently one of Austria's leading contemporary artists.
2022-2023 the belvedere 21 dedicated a large solo exhibition to him. Gerwald Rockenschaub lives and works in Berlin.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Rockenschaub became known for his geometrically-abstract images and his graphic artworks, which were subsumed, along with the works of artists such as Heimo Zobernig, under the heading "new geometry." In his c