The painter, graphic artist, set designer, and poet Carry Hauser (1895–1985) was a pioneer of Austrian modern art.

This catalogue raisonné comprises both a detailed biography and 1,420 works, some which have only recently been discovered. Carry Hauser’s artistic career covered almost the entire twentieth century. In these crisis-ridden times of two world wars, exile and emigration he made a unique and valuable contribution to Austrian art.

This systematic documentation of Hauser’s life and work, reevaluates his fundamental significance to the breakthrough of modernism in Austria.