Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Maximilian Melcher. Since 1996 he lives and works in Los Angeles. Although Schmalix is often brought into the context of the Austrian painting of the "Neue Wilde", his painterly work is connected more to a constructive and rational design (...) than to the emotional, violent painting frenzy of the expressionist tradition. Related to the thematic reference points of the Transavanguardia - religion, cultural history and mythology - he creates a Christ series in the early 1990s, which, however, is more reminiscent of non-European deities: in a cubist layout, but more strongly related to the pictorial surface. In the more recent paintings, subjects from the last decades appear, which Schmalix combines with each other as if in a typesetting system. [in: W. Schmied (ed.), Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich, 20. Jh., vol. 6, 2002, p. 609]