Biographie de Ludwig Drahosch
Ludwig Drahosch, born in Vienna in 1969, had already made more than two hundred anatomical drawings by the age of ten. Between the ages of fourteen and twenty he copied old masters in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and appropriated the techniques of the Italian, Dutch and German Renaissance as well as those of the subsequent Baroque. As part of his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he became acquainted with modern art from Arik Brauer and Hundertwasser, among others.
In 1997 he received the Golden Füger Medal. At the same time, he studied and dealt intensively with philosophy in order to find out where many of the postmodern views that he did not understand came from. After twenty years of exhibitions (mainly in Los Angeles), he and his partner, the actress and director Nina C. Gabriel, took over the management of the Ateliertheater in Vienna. She also inspired him to create the character of Genoveva in his novella Simonetta's Shadow.
Drahosch is currently making films and giving lectures such as The Present from the Renaissance Perspective.