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2010:
A brand new altar in the net now - the Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Altar. The outer wings portray Arnie as body-builder and as terminator, the middle part as governor. The latest work of Werner Horvath displays the ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico: "Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster". A special tribute to the work of the famous painter Henri Rousseau is Horvath's painting Rousseau's Dream.

2009:
In 2009 the Austrian city Linz will be Cultural Capital of Europe, and Werner Horvath, born and living in Linz, has planned a lot of projects for this purpose. One of them is presented on February 5th in the Arcotel Nike, and it will bring a lot of beermats to hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars of Linz. But besides he doesn't want to forget to paint and created two pictures concerning the worldwide financial crisis: portraits of the economists Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, including also some of their theories. The triptych "Death and the Maiden" , not totally finished now, will be a culmination of the year 2009.

2008:
In 2009 Linz in Austria will be Cultural Capital of Europe (together with Vilnius). The artist Werner Horvath, born and living in Linz, is preparing for this event. He has worked out some projects: One of them is a Comment on a war memorial on the westside of the Castle of Linz by two large pictures. He wants to create special beer-mats for the European Capital of Culture 2009, and to show an installation consisting of these beer-mats called "From Part to the Whole" in the Castle of Puchenau near Linz. He has also created the large painting "Linz - Cultural Capital of Europe 2009", which deals with historical facts concerning the city. Complementary he created the paintings "Design-Center" for the Linz AG and "Nike of Samothrace" for the hotel-group Arcotel Nike, to be printed on beer-mats in 2009 too. Last but not least there is a portrait of the Roman emperor and philosopher Marc Aurel, which continues the series of portraits of philosophers.

2007:
The year 2007 started with the painting " Clash of Civilizations V - Kim Yong Il", the dictator of North Corea. But the main work is without any doubt the "John Lennon - Peace Altar", which was finished this year. A very impressive picture depicts the victim of Nationalsocialism Anne Frank. The painting "John F. Kennedy" (version 2) is part of the series about American presidents. The Egypt actress Hind Rustum is a famous sex symbol of the 50s in the Arab world and can be seen as a legend. On the contrary idols of the western world: "Jim Morrison" and "The Death and Jim Morrison", followed by  "Give Peace a Chance", four digital prints celebrating the peace-activist John Lennon. Werner Horvath painted his daughter Nina again, she has grown up to a beautiful woman. A drawing, created on the island of Madeira and depicting Marilyn, is the last image of this year at the moment.

2006:
To be continued: " Clash of Civilizations IV - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iran". And on the contrary: The peace-image  "John Lennon - Imagine" and the middle-part of a new "Peace-Altar", recently created on the island of Crete (Greece). The image "Charles Robert Darwin - Evolution" is a political image too and very sophisticated. Also created in 2006: "A Tribute to Franz Marc - the Tiger" and a new Marilyn.

2005:
Recently finished:  the Kastellos-Altar, a giant work which took two years for realisation, and "Liberty", a painting designed to be a poster for the exhibition of the "Austrian Society for Medicine and Arts" in autumn 2005 in Vienna. The image "Friedrich Nietzsche - the Three Metamorphoses" completes a composition of 100 oil-paintings, each of them 50 x 40 cm in size; this composition ("War and Peace") has been created by Werner Horvath during the years 1992 - 2005. You can also find the great constructivist Ernst von Glasersfeld in this 2005-section.  Or do you prefer a  sophisticated portrait of the Austrian Noble-Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek titled "The Piano Teacher", Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator, "Destruction" (two paintings depicting Osama bin Laden and George W.Bush) and a picture completing the Fall-of-Communism-series: "Life and Death of Nicolai Ceausescu"? A special design for the 4th International Art-Festival in Chania 2006 is the painting "Roses for Marilyn Monroe", and another special design for an outcoming book ("Diana in Art" by Mem Mehmet) is the picture "Roses for Diana". Finally you can see also "Marlene Dietrich, World War II and Dresden"  -  and a portrait of Voltaire.

2004:
The painting "George Bush Killing Freedom" is a very critical one.  "Remembering Albrecht Duerer", a real masterpiece, was created at the beginning of the year 2004. Then a critical portrait of the Nobel prize winner Julius Wagner-Jauregg,  because the discovery that Wagner-Jauregg wanted to be a member of the Nazi party has shocked Austria. And another infamous "scientist": SS-doctor Josef Mengele! Presented for the first time: the Kastellos-Altar, at this time a work in progress.

2003:
"Clash of Civilizations III: Saddam Hussein", the brandnew image from the series. Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan leader;  "One Squaremater of Leninism and Stalinism", Mozart as a Freemason, Bob Marley, Sigmund Freud, a painting dealing with the history of the Congo and a drawing of Che Guevara, done at Tenerife-island.

2002:
The most important works done in 2002: "Spiral of Violence I and II": Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat. You can also see "The Garden of Revolution: Che Guevara", its contrary "The Garden of Peace", the Russian leader Stalin, the philosophers Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli, Sigmund Freud in "Garden of the Subconscious" and a young Marilyn Monroe.

2001:
The main-works of this year are without any doubt the "Clash of Civilizations"-series: George W.Bush and Osama bin Laden. "Che Guevara" , Gaddhafi and the Wallerts and the philosophers Sir Charles Popper("Three Worlds" and "Plato's Fall and the Falsification", Thomas Hobbes and David Hume. Or are you looking for Darth Vader and Darth Maul? - You find them here! Additional you can see Sigmund Freud, Nikos Kazantzakis and a self portrait of the artist.

2000:
Political paintings like "Vladimir Putin (Chechnya II)" or Benito Mussolini , Mao and Karl Marx. But you can also find Darth Vader and James Dean. Or do you prefer Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer ?

1999:
1999-works of the artist: "In the Jungle of Communism" and a painting dealing with the situation on the Balkans: "Smart Bombs and Sexy Guns." You can also see portraits of Marilyn Monroe, the philosophers John Locke , Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli, the Saint Benedict Menni and finally a Pomegranate, the symbol of the Brothers of St. John of God.

1998:
A transparent Lenin, Lenin and Stalin formed by skulls, Princess Diana, Leonardo di Caprio.... and Nina, the daughter of the artist.

1997:
You can find Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dali, Karl Marx, Lenin, Arthur Schopenhauer and the saints of the Brothers of St.John of God.

1996:
Vincent van Gogh, Marilyn Monroe,  Laokoon, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brechnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and the philosopher Paul Watzlawick are shown in this section.

1995:
This show includes Vaclav Havel, Jaques Chirac, Lenin, Stalin, Yeltsin, Adolf Hitler, Mao, Robert Koch, Albert Schweitzer, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, as well as variations of paintings of Botticelli and Michelangelo.

1994:
Here you can find Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, the surgeon Theodor Billroth, Marilyn Monroe, variations on Mona Lisa and Klimt's Kiss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, Mao, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

1993:
You can see John.F. Kennedy, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Anthony Perkins, Rock Hudson, Freddy Mercury, Rudolf Nurejev, Saddam Hussein, Khomeini, Adolf Hitler and the burning house in Solingen, Milosevic, Karadzic, Lenin, Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

1992:
This part shows paintings of the Greek period of the artist, his first political paintings (Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Waldheim) and reflections about atomic power and evolution.

1969-1991:
Here you can find some examples of early works of the artist. The development of his style from Phantastic Realism to New Constructivism is documented.

Series :
During the years 1992 to 2005  Werner Horvath has created a composition, consisting of 100 oil-paintings, each of them 50 x 40 cm in size. The work is called "War and Peace" and you can see it here in total and in detail.