Arnulf Rainer: The Beginning is Always the Hardest: Early Works 1949-1961

Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) attained international recognition by painting over his own works and those of others, the first artist to affirm this practice as a form. Published on the occasion of the opening of the Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden, this monograph is the first volume to cast light on Rainer's influential early work.