With Robert Motherwell – Pure Painting, the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is showing the work of a leading representative of Abstract Expressionism, the monumental, gestural movement in painting that began in the late 1940s and is regarded as the first original form of American Post-War art. The exhibition will be the first retrospective since 1976 held in Austria that deals with the work of this important American artist, and the first in Europe since 1998.