Hubert Schmalix is a visual artist who is numbered among the most prominent Austrian painters. Along with Gunter Damisch, Herbert Brandl and Erwin Bohatsch, Schmalix belongs to the group called the "Wild Youth".

Schmalix studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts* from 1971 to 1976, where he was taught by Max Melcher. His career took off shortly after he graduated, with his first individual exhibition at Künstlerhaus Wien the same year. Works by Schmalix were featured at the Aktuell 83 exhibition in Munich in 1983.

International success followed soon afterwards: he went to Sydney in 1984, where the city’s Biennale provided the ideal framework to present his art to a wider audience. Aside from Los Angeles, the artist continues...