Obituaries

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Arik Brauer (Hebrew: אריק בראואר‎; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer, and stage designer. He resided in Vienna and Ein Hod, Israel. Brauer was a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, together with Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Fritz Janschka, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Erich "Arik" Brauer was the child of Lithuanian Jewish emigrants. His post-war artistic training was in Vienna, under the supervision of Albert Paris von Gütersloh. Gütersloh promoted Brauer's work within the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism circle of artists, which had formed in the mid-1950s from a post-1946 Viennese surrealist group that had included Brauer along with Edgar Jené, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Rudolf Hausner, Anton Lehmden, and Fritz Janschka. Despite the prevailing art-world taste for abstraction in the 1950s and early 1960s, Brauer's work successfully blended high craftsmanship and surrealism in ways that gained him international attention. In 1982, he had breakthrough solo shows in the United States.

Brauer also designed architectural projects in Austria and Israel. The façades and interiors of his buildings are covered with fantastical mosaics, murals and painted tiles. He also designed the first United Buddy Bear for Austria in 2002.

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Arik-Brauer-Haus in Vienna

Among his works are:

• Brauerhaus in Gumpendorferstraße, Vienna
  
  
• Pfarre am Tabor, Vienna
  
  
• Rathaus Voitsberg
  
  
• Kastra shopping mall, Haifa – facade of Kastra features Brauer's "Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden" is the largest mural of its kind in the world.
  
  
  

His daughter is jazz singer Timna Brauer.

Arik Brauer in 2009

• City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts (1979)
  
  
• [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art]Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, (1st class) (2002)[1]
  
  
• Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the City of Vienna (2011)
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arik_Brauer