Harry Rabinger (1895–1966) was a Luxembourgish artist who is remembered for his portraits and Expressionist landscape paintings, especially those of the industrial area in the south of the country.
[1] Born in the Pfaffenthal district of Luxembourg City on 25 February 1895, Rabinger started his art studies in Paris but was forced to go to Munich when war broke out in 1914.
It was in 1919 that he came into contact with the south of Luxembourg as an art teacher at the Ecole Industrielle et Commerciale and at the Lycée des Jeunes Filles in Esch-sur-Alzette.
At the time, industry was expanding rapidly in the area, providing him with vivid scenes of mines, factories, railways and buildings caked in rusty red coatings.
[2] Rabinger's work varies from brightly coloured still lifes to startlingly realistic nudes and portraits, including his famous women with boyish hairdos.