Xenia Hausner

(*1951)

Austria – Contemporary Art – Realism – Xenia Hausner

Vita:

Xenia Hauser, daughter of the Austrian painter Rudolf Hausner, studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After her thoroughly successful career as a set designer, she completed over 100 theater and opera sets, she decided in 1992 to become a painter. Just four years later, she was looking forward to her first exhibitions on both a national and an international level. Her trademark, the intense color scheme, helped her to make a name for herself on the art market. Her work has been honored with numerous awards. Since 1998 she has been teaching painting courses at the international summer academy for fine arts in the city of Salzburg.

Work:

Xenia Hausner’s work is characterized by the art of creating large-format, color-intensive and at the same time mysterious pictures. Situations are reflected that each of us is familiar with. Usually it is about everyday opposites such as love and jealousy, loneliness and togetherness, youth and transience. With her passion for delicacy, she creates unique works of art whose main protagonists are exclusively women. Another special feature of Xenia Hausner’s work is the play between painting and photography, which create a picture within a picture character that shows different levels of meaning. It is precisely through this technique that more and more collage-like works are created with her handwriting, in which she also paints over large-format photographs and incorporates various materials to create a new work of art.