Hubert Schmalix

Place: Vienna

Born: 1952

Biography:

Hubert Schmalix is an Austrian artist born in 1952 in Vienna, Austria. He is known for his work as part of the Junge Wilde movement, a German-speaking art movement that arose in 1978 in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art. The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke. Schmalix is one of the most influential artists of this movement, along with Siegfried Anzinger, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Scheibl, G.L. Gabriel-Thieler, Berit Heggenhougen-Jensen, Nina Sten-Knudsen, Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Andreas Walther, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Elvira Bach, Peter Robert Keil, Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Leiko Ikemura, Gerard Kever, Gerhard Naschberger, Volker Tannert, Elias Maria Reti, Stefan Szczesny, A. R. Penck, Moritz Reichelt, Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Markus Lüpertz, Werner Buettner, Horst Gläsker, Peter Angermann, and Bernd Erich Gall. Schmalix's work is represented by Ambach & Rice in Los Angeles. He is married to artist Allison Schulnik and they live together with their daughter in Sky Valley, California.