Architecture – Peintner, Max. – Sechs Beiträge zur Zukunft. Projekte Wien No. 69.

Max Peintner (1937 (Hall in Tyrol) Austrian architect and painter. – Peintner studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna until 1963. In 1964 he published the monograph Otto Wagner 1841–1918 with Heinz Geretsegger. Unlimited metropolis, beginning of modern architecture published by Residenz Verlag. In 1969 he published his first drawings under the title Six Contributions to the Future: Criticism of Technology and Civilization under the Guise of Utopia. In 1972 Peintner was represented with works in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. In 1977, documenta 6 showed his work. In 1986 he and Karl Prantl represented Austria at the Biennale di Venezia. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in, among others, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1982), the Rupertinum in Salzburg (1985/1986), the Museion in Bozen (1989) and the Ludwig Kortárs Muvészeti Múzeum in Budapest (1996/1997). The Neue Galerie Graz dedicated a retrospective to him in 2000. A pencil drawing by Peintner from 1974 is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.- Peintner’s work “The Unbroken Attraction of Nature” (1970/71) was the starting point for the art project For Forest (Klagenfurt 2019). On loan from Michael and Marina Dünter (New York), it was shown in the opening exhibition of the Albertina Modern in Vienna in 2020. – Peintner lives in Vienna. He is the great cousin of the architect and designer Ettore Sottsass.