Education
Between 1979 and 1983 he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna of Gustav Hessings and later Friedensreich Hundertwassers masterclass of painting.
Between 1979 and 1983 he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna of Gustav Hessings and later Friedensreich Hundertwassers masterclass of painting.
Gräffs painterly style is rooted on the one hand in the artistic heritage of Vincent van Gogh, and on the other hand he can also be regarded as a precursor or heritage of the Neuen Wilde. Helmuth Gräff is the child of Rudolf Gräff (1919-2006) and Leopoldine Gräff, born Kimmerl (* 1923), from Vienna-Schwechat. In his youth Helmuth Gräff had been drawing thousands of artworks and kept on practising until the age of 20 where he began to study at the Wiener Kunstschule by Fritz Martinz.
Since 1989 is Gräff self-employed as an academic painter, drawer and poet.
The themes of his artworks are one the one hand compositions with spiritual and religious contents, and one the other hand works in the nature (Italy, France, Florida, Bali) Solo: 2014 "Memento mori", KunstSalon, Vienna/AT 2011 "Louisiana pura women"s health resort kamptal", Gars am Kamp/AT 2010 "Intarsien - Eine malerische Rundreise", Palais Palffy, Vienna/AT 2010 "Frühlingskantate", Salon - Galerie Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly, Vienna/AT 2010 "Gräff meets Oklahoma", Oskar Kokoschka-Dokumentationszentrum, Pöchlarn/AT 2008 "Sunloft Center" und Wyvern Hotel, Punta Gorda, Florida/United States of America 2008 "Zwischen den Welten", Dommuseum, Vienna/AT 2008 "Zwischen den Welten", Buchpräsentation und Ausstellung, MOYA - Museum of Young Art, Vienna/AT 2007 Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg/AT Group: 2015: "Matthias Laurenz Gräff und Zwischen den Welten - Zwischen den Generationen", Galerie Daliko, Krems an der Donau 2011 "The exitement continues - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Leopold II", Leopold Museum, Vienna/AT 2011 "Gräff trifft Seitz", Exhibition with Friedrich Martin Seitz, The land of Lower Austria-Ausstellungsbrücke, Saint Pölten/AT 69.
