Rainer Fetting

Rainer Fetting is a German painter and sculptor closely associated with the Junge-Wilde style, which arose during the late 1970s in the German-speaking world as an alternative to Minimalism and Conceptual art. Interested in moving away from these then dominant methods, Fetting began creating colorful figurative works; political in nature, his paintings frequently depicted the surrounding cityscape of West Berlin, including the Wall. The urban motif subsequently continued to play out in Fetting’s work throughout his long and successful career, and today, Fetting is considered one of Germany's major contemporary painters, particularly in the Neo-Expressionist movement. In addition to painting, Fetting creates bronze sculptures and assemblage work that often feature driftwood mounted on canvas.

Fetting has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous institutions, including the Kunsthalle Basel, the Museo di Barcelona, the Stadtmuseum Weimar in Vienna, and the Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany. His work has also been exhibited in group shows at numerous institutions such as the Tate Gallery in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the National Gallery in London.