Josef Winkler was born in 1925 and has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the classes of Prof. Josef Dobrowski and Prof. Herbert Boeckl and at Art School Guildford near London.
Then he startet his long-time career as art dealer for both antiques, paintings and sculptures. Only after he reached his retirement age he started painting again.
During the past more than 30 years he developed his unique artistic style. His abstract expressionist paintings reach from reduced with only a few strokes to works that are more like wall sculptures. Many layers of acrylic mixed with sand and lots of other materials sometimes even combined with different objects.

Day by day he worked in his studio creating most fascinating works, always following his strict motto: “I will never ever repeat myself.”