Arnulf
Rainer
The Architecture of Disintegration: The Life and Legacy of Arnulf Rainer To encounter the work of Arnulf Rainer is to witness a profound confrontation with the act of erasure. Born in Baden, Austria, on December 8, 1929, Rainer emerged from a landscape steeped in the …
A portrait built from Arnulf Rainer's own colours
Every 9 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
