Dieter Rossi

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I was born in Austria in 1940, studied painting at the Vienna Art Academy where I graduated and at the Baltimore Institute in Maryland where I learned photography. I was lucky, I never had to earn money from painting but always had other, mostly part time but well paid jobs which provided for a comfortable living. At the age of 26 I moved to London where I lived until 2002 when we moved to Dorset. In 2013 we rented a villa in Valentano near Lake Bolsena, Italy where we spent 5 to 6 months every summer until the corona virus put a stop to it this year. And like everybody else we are now waiting for the vaccination.

A selection of my paintings can be seen on which I update occasionally. My total work consists of over 1000 paintings, around 70 overpainted colour photographs, 2 children's books and numerous photographs. Although it is nice to be free of the burdensome necessity to earn money from painting this freedom does not encourage self publication. So at some stage I tried my own gallery in Brick Lane for a couple of years but had to give it up as it would have taken far too much of my time to run it properly.

I do not write about or explain my paintings as I believe they can be appreciated or disliked without it....

Realgymnasium Innsbruck '58

Akademie der bildendenden Künste Wien '64
Akademischer Maler
Photographie at the Maryland Insitute, Baltimore USA 1963.