Arnulf Rainer
Self Portrait

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Artist Arnulf Rainer Austrian, born 1929

CultureAustrian

Titles

Self Portrait

Date1969–1970

PlaceAustria

MediumGelatin silver print with crayon

DimensionsImage: 12 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (32 × 25.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (32.1 × 25.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.3182

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionFrom the 1950s to the present, Arnulf Rainer’s work has probed death, pain, and spiritual elevation. Self-Portrait is from his series titled Farce Face, in which Rainer photographed his own face in grimaces and contortions that he felt imitated those of altered mental states—such as dreams, hallucinations, mental illness—that allow the mind to transcend the human condition.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, February 21 - May 9, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

bottom left on image in crayon " A Rainer "

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