Rudolf Hoflehner is one of the most important representatives of modern art in Austria after the Second World War and achieved international attention in the 1950s and 1960s through his consistent artistic work in the field of metal sculpture. After working years in Linz and Vienna, an appointment to the Stuttgart Art Academy also followed during this period. The artist's sculptural work was always accompanied by a variety of graphic works that transferred the hard medium of metal sculpture into the "soft" medium of painting, drawing and etching. At the end of the 1960s follows the complete concentration on the two-dimensional, on the colors and lines in painting and graphic art. It was not until after 1985 that Hoflehner began to create monumental sculptures again.