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Маттиас Лоренц Графф
Matthias Laurenz Graeff

I was born in 1984 into an austrian family with an artistic background. As one of the Graeff family's heirs, I became chairman of the global Family Association Gräff-Graeff (Familienverband Gräff-Graeff e. V.) in 2013.

Between 2002 and 2008 I studied painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. After my Magister degree, I concentrated on my career as an artist and my work as a private historian. In my artistic work I combine a certain expressionism influenced by pop art with the expression of different genres: historical, political, religious works, urban or rural landscapes, nudes, flower pieces, portraits, interieurs and stilllifes, including painting of vanities. My contemporary images of political and social criticism has been published several times in newspapers, blogs and books on national and international politics. Important topics are anti-fascism, socialism, anti-nationalist and pro-European.

In 2013, together with my partner Georgia Kazantzidu I founded the non-partisan and diplomatic platform Dialog im Kamptal in our house in Austria (participants included ministers, diplomats, members of parliament, princes, bankers, scientists etc). Since 2024 I am also representative of the austrian governing and parliamentary party NEOS in Greece and whole Cyprus as well as austrians abroad.