Peter George Mahler

Peter George Mahler is an Austrian–American artist whose work bridges classical European painting traditions with contemporary digital aesthetics. Born in New York and trained at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Carl Unger and Wolfgang Hutter, he developed Pixelismus, a visual language that transforms the digital pixel into a tactile, humanized structure, balancing abstraction and recognizability. In a contemporary echo of Pointillism, his works invite the viewer to reconstruct the image from its smallest units — not dots of color, but pixels of perception.

His five decade career includes exhibitions at Galerie Lucardus, Galerie ROTHA (with Mauricio Duprat), Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Städtische Galerie Traun, St. Peter an der Sperr (Wiener Neustadt), Kramsacher Kunstforum, and the Grand Hotel Wien, as well as international group shows in Spain and Bulgaria through Galerie SUR. Mahler designed the immersive Gustav Mahler Room at the Haus der Musik, Vienna, and organized major benefit auctions in prominent Viennese institutions for around a decade, supporting humanitarian and ecological projects with his own work donations.

In 2025, his Pixelismus works were presented in Chengdu (China), with further exhibitions in preparation. Mahler descends from the Markus Mahler branch of the extended Mahler family