In spring 2014, the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is holding a major exhibition of works by the Austrian artist Siegfried Anzinger. The focus of the show, including around 80 works, is on new paintings specially created by the artist for the exhibition. The painted works will be supplemented by drawings, watercolours and pastels produced at intervals alternating with the distemper pictures. Part of the exhibition is devoted as well to selected pictures in the context of Anzinger’s participation in the 1988 Biennale di Venezia. These works manifest the artist’s progressive rejection of the label of “Wilde Malerei” (Wild Painting) and testify to a multi-layered painterly subtlety in graphic structure and tension – qualities that had a sustained formative influence on the subsequent decades in Anzinger’s artistic oeuvre.