Kornmandl. 1989.
Oil and straw on canvas.
Signed and dated on the reverse. 118 x 97 cm (46.4 x 38.1 in).
[AW].

• Impressively powerful colors in combination with unusual material aesthetics.
• Franz Grabmayr captures the forces of nature in a highly vivid abstraction.
• In the 1980s, the artist was a role model for the "Neue Wilde" and a cult figure of Austrian painting.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (with the gallery label on the reverse).
Private collection Hesse (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Franz Grabmayr. Neue Arbeiten 1986 bis 1989, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, March 10 - April 21, 1990, cat. no. 12 (with color illu.).

LITERATURE: Gerbert Frodl, Georg Fischer, Marianne Blüml, Franz Grabmayr. Im Schatten der Natur, Bielefeld 1993, cat. no. 67, color illu. p. 67.