The Austrian-born artist’s creative interests were always bigger, and so his first detailed professional training led him into the world of fashion, starting at the HLM Wr. Neustadt in Lower Austria where he first received and completed his professional drawing lessons in the subjects of fashion drawing, nature study-color theory and graphics. This is how his love for art and creative work started.

His greatest wish was to study at the Vienna Conservatory. In 1994 he graduated with a stage diploma in the subjects “acting and operetta” and “solo singing”. After many different engagements in theaters and as an artist on stage and for various performances in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, he returned to Vienna in 2004.

In 2005 he was responsible for the reopening and organization of the restaurant at the Meierei-Gaaden near Mödling in Lower Austria, where he is still actively involved in operational management, creative fields, events and art exhibitions and as the restaurant’s host.

In 2008 he founded the summer theater events Theatermeierei (http://www.theatermeierei.at) in Gaaden near Mödling, where successful and popular performances include comedies by W. Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Carlo Goldoni, George Feydeau and Johann N. Nestroy.

Since 2017 he decided to devote again more time to fine arts and is actively engaged as an action artist with the “performing arts”. He published his first exhibition in 2018 under the title “Art and Nature” in the Lower Austria area, with the topic of environmental problems, sustainability with pictures and objects in various techniques.

Since 2020 he studies painting and process / printmaking as a major at the Vienna School of Art. During the pandemic he has been actively working on an exhibition currently entitled as “stay at home”, with collage themes from the golden 50s and oil paintings with abstract floral motifs.

In 2021 he was part of a group exhibition in Vienna with the title “Seven Million Colors”, where he presented his acrylic screenprint paintings under the title “Transformation”.

His latest exhibition was in January 2023 in Vienna under the title “Days in b/w”.

He also completed his art studies in 2023, graduating with a diploma from the Vienna Art School in Painting, Process, and Printmaking.

His most recent group exhibitions worldwide, in which he participated, were in New York, Miami, Zurich, Basel, Berlin, Athens, and Paris.
These included the Swissartexpo in September 2023, in Basel and Zurich, and Artbasel in Miami.

In January 2024, he opened the year with an Aolo exhibition in Vienna entitled “Personality and Dream.”

In November 2024, he seduced audiences with an exhibition entitled “EQUINOX” – “dreaming allowed” at the Haus der Kunst in Baden near Vienna.

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Wolf Sailer is a contemporary Austrian artist with roots in Vienna and Lower Austria, active in painting and printmaking. He mostly works abstractly to convey his goal of emotions, inner states, or mental concepts. His composition, color, line, and rhythm are like his own “language.” From wild to expressive to action painting.

He works on canvas and paper and various types of canvas fabrics. He combines techniques such as screen printing, woodcuts, linocuts, and aquatint with impasto application of paint, acrylics, and palette knife techniques combined with abstract painting.

Sailer also considers art a combination of respect for the old and renewal—social, economic, ecological, and even spiritual.

He uses motifs—from art history and poetry as well as contemporary ones—and transforms them into abstract, contemporary images, allowing for his own creative freedom.

Prints and canvas works, painted over, palette knifed, wiped, and poured—expressive, ambiguous visual worlds emerge. Sailer mostly works with acrylic paints, but also with oil and printing inks.

In his latest paintings, including a part of his “Getaway to Freedom” series, which will be on display at the Swiss Art Expo 2025, Sailer uses only airbrush paint to create his own unique effects of color and gloss.

The paint is applied with a squeegee, pulling or pushing the paint to create flowing, structured, spontaneous, or layered color gradients.