Artist: Alois Mosbacher– Austrian (1954- ) Title: Figure Drinking from Bottle Year: 1982 Medium: Mixed Media – Acrylic and watercolor on paper Size: 16.75 x 24 inches (42.5 x 61 cm) Matted size: 24 x 31.25 inches (61 x 79.5 cm) Signature: Signed, dated lower right, Mosbacher 82 Condition: Very good Frame: Matted, unframed This mixed media artwork is by Alois Mosbacher (1954-). It is composed of watercolor and acrylic paint. The watercolor is the background and part of the figure. The acrylic comprises most of the figure. The painting is in very good condition. There is a ¼ inch tear on the lower edge in the center of the sheet. The painting is floating on a black mat. I will ship it with the mat. Alois Mosbacher is a very well-known artist. He has exhibited throughout Europe. The following biography is from Wikipedia, but there is much more information elsewhere online. Biography (Source: Wikipedia) Alois Mosbacher's work ranges from figurative and abstract painting to installations. He is one of the key representatives of New Painting of the 1980s. Since the early 1980s, Alois Mosbacher has appeared every four or five years with a series of pictures that actively intervene in the international painting discussion. This is how a highly relevant work was created over the years. Mosbacher showed his works, among others. in exhibitions at the Krinzinger Gallery , the Aargauer Kunsthaus , the Neue Galerie Graz and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig , as well as with Erwin Wurm at the Kunstverein Bremen . Honors and awards 2014: Austrian Art Prize for Visual Arts 2012: Appreciation Prize for Fine Arts, Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria 2001: Georg Eisler Prize 1994: City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts 1979: Art Prize of the State of Styria Recent Exhibitions (selection) Solo exhibitions 2023: Palinops . Belvedere 21, Vienna 2022: Alois Mosbacher . Kunsthaus Köflach 2019: The Shadow of the Faun , Gallery 422, Margund Lössl, Gmunden 2018: Slow Game , Galerie Trapp, Salzburg 2018: Alois Mosbacher – Better View , galerie gölles, Fürstenfeld 2016: Alois Mosbacher: New Works – Painting , Galerie Marenzi, Leibnitz 2016: Alois Mosbacher: Outta Space , Galerie Patrick Ebensperger Berlin 2015: Time for A * Time for F , Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag 2015: Early Lust , Galerie Trapp, Salzburg 2014: Furnishing the Wilderness , Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz 2014: Printemps , Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn , Switzerland 2014: Beam Me Up , Galerie Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne 2013: Alb, Galerie Reinisch Contemporary, Graz 2012: Beam me up, Scotty! Altnöder Gallery, Salzburg 2011: 4 seasons , Kunsthaus Baselland , Basel 2010: Outside Fiction , Neue Galerie Graz Group exhibitions 2019: Land(E)scapes , representations of landscapes in contemporary art, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag 2018: Intriguing Uncertainties , Contemporary art exhibition, The Parkview Museum, Singapore 2018: The 90s, A Viennese Divan , Vienna Museum MUSA, Vienna 2018: ART bikes in Millstatt 2017: Bridging Asia-Europe , The Parkview Museum, Singapore 2016: Paper Work III , Galerie Gerersdorfer, Vienna 2016: Intrigantes Incertitudes , Dessin contemporain, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole 2015: Near Far or Simply Good Art , State Museum of Lower Austria 2015: The Wild Years , Essl Museum Collection Essl , Klosterneuburg 2013: Nineteen Seventy , The Toni Gerber Collection, Kunstmuseum Lucerne 2006: Landscape in your mind , Austrian Cultural Forum New York , USA 2004: Neue Wilde – A Development , Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg Public collections (selection) Albertina (Vienna) Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Vienna MUMOK , Vienna