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Rainer Fetting achieved international success with the “Neue Wilde” (New Wild Ones) in the early 1980s. His art, which formed towards the end of the 1970s with its expressionist painting against the conventions of abstract and conceptual art, is highly topical again today. Fettings painting is a decisive pioneer for “queer” discourses on gender, identity, the individual and power. His “expressive” portraits, cityscapes and landscapes, as well as still lifes and flower paintings, which are the focus of this publication, capture psychosocial energies that are evident in every painterly decision in his paintings. On display are unpublished works from four decades. The publication is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Miettinen Collection in Berlin.