Lois Weinberger, the Austrian artist who described his work as being ‘against the aesthetics of the pure and the true, against the ordering forces’, has died.
Weinberger was born in Tyrol, a mountainous state in western Austria, beginning his fascination with nature which would inform his work later on. He started his career in the 1970s and came to prominence in 1997 when he took part in Documenta X, where he planted flora from Central and Eastern Europe on an abandoned train track. The work titled What is Beyond the Plants / Is at One with Them was restored in 2015 where it still grows.
In 2009, Weinberger represented Austria at the edition of the Venice Biennial before returning to show at Documenta again in 2017. Weinberger was known for his investigation of the relationship between the natural and and the built environment and received numerous awards in recognition of this such as the 1999 Land Tirol Art Award and the 2006 Land Tirol Dignity Award for Fine Arts.
