Rainer Mirau
421 artworks by Rainer Mirau.
Last artwork was added more than a month ago.
Born in Vienna in 1976, I have lived in the small town of Baden near Vienna since I was a child. After studying "Industrial Environmental Protection" at the University of Leoben, I worked in Vienna in the pharmaceutical industry as an environmental officer. After a few years of professional life, I realised that my urge to photograph landscapes was so strong that I had to start my own business to give the experiment of being a professional photographer a chance. I have never regretted this step and am very grateful that I am able to pursue a profession that allows me to live out my passion.
I now have two sons, which makes travelling a lot more complicated, but also more exciting and fun. What am I doing all this for? To a large extent, to see the world together with my family and to experience the odd adventure. It's a great gift that I get to spend so much time with my family at home and when I'm travelling.
Photography is not just my job, it's my greatest passion. If I hadn't met my partner years ago, I could say "the love of my life". Landscape photography has been with me more or less intensively for over 25 years. Classic wide-angle landscape shots (grand-scapes) in particular, in which the eye is drawn across the foreground and middle ground to a background in the distance, accompanied by magical light, make my heart beat faster. I regularly travel to Northern Europe,
