Matthias Laurenz Gräff

Mag. Matthias Laurenz Gräff, Rep (born 19 July 1984) is an Austrian-Greek academic painter, private historian, political activist and politician.

* In his artistic work Gräff combines a certain expressionism influenced by pop art with the expression of different genres: historical, political, religious, literary themes, urban or rural landscapes, nudes, flower pieces, portraits, interieurs and stilllifes, including painting of vanities. Since 2015, he has been working on contemporary paintings of political and socio-critical approaches, which have been published several times in newspapers, blogs, and books on national and international politics. Important themes include antifascism, socialism, antinationalism, and pro-Europeanism
* Since 2013 Gräff has served as chairman of the worldwide Family Association Gräff-Graeff, an organization for descendants of the dynastic Von Graben family. These include the De Graeff noble house (Graeff, De Graaff, Gräff) and the Op den Graeff family with his main lines Updegraff as an associated family
* In 2019, Gräff and Georgia Kazantzidu co-founded the non-partisan political and diplomatic platform Dialog im Kamptal (Dialogue in Kamptal) in the art studio Gräff - house Kazantzidu in Gars am Kamp...

2002 - 2008 Art studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (academic painter - magister artium degree)
2003 - 2004, Printmaking course, Geras
2001 - 2002 Illustration & graphic studies at the New Design Centre, St. Pölten
2001 - 2004 Summer Academy, Geras

selection:
* Erich Maria Remarque Friedenszentrum Osnabrück - Germany
* Kunsthalle Köln-Lindenthal (Germany)
* Galerie Austria, Vienna - Austria
* Siemens headquarters, Linz an der Donau - Austria
* Red Bull, Zeltweg - Austria
* WUK, Vienna - Austria