Robert Zeppel-Sperl was born in Leoben, Austria in 1944. He was a co-founder of the Wirklichkeiten Group and received a degree in 1966 from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.After his studies, he went to study in Venice and the United States. Yet, the experience that most influenced Zeppel-Sperl was his encounter with the island of Bali and its extraordinarily rich culture - an important experience that led to the creation of his strongest and most significant works. He lived in Vienna and Bali in Indonesia where in 2005 he died prematurely.

Robert Zeppel-Sperl's animals and figures have much in common with the surrealist movement. Either representative or figurative, his art does not copy any o...