Janz Franz

The exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz represents the first review by an institution of the work of Franz Janz. Many art works from the Infeld Collection are part of the exhibition. 

Waiter, horse breeder, autodidact, actionist, student of Hermann Nitsch - Franz Janz (1946-2017) combines all these facets. One more point to this outstanding artist - Janz was friends with Arnold Schwarzenegger, also born in Graz, took with him a lesson in a wood and building materials store and helped him set up his first bodybuilding gym.

"Franz Janz has developed his own style. He is unmistakable. I have a close connection to his painting. For me, the not stated and the not readily explainable, into which a human being pours his soul into", said Peter Infeld (1942-2009) in 2003. He fostered and collected Franz Janz. In an attempt to make a historical art classification, Peter Infeld filtered the closeness to Art Brut, to the "painters of the pure heart" (Wilhelm Uhde).

Exhibitions curator is Roman Grabner.