The Alpensaga is a 6-piece television drama by Peter Turrini and Wilhelm Pevny. It was filmed in the years 1976/1977 under the direction by Dieter Bernese and treats the problems of the Austrian population from 1900 to 1945. The Alpensaga ranks until today as one of most important Austrian productions. One of her main participants was Helmut Qualtinger. With the help of comparable techniques as with the past Rembrandt series, Lois Renner could now combine the digitilized fixed images of the Alpensaga with the paintings he painted from the fixed images.

The 16 works are fixed images from a running sequence of the television play which show specific scenarios. By combining the individual works new narrative structures develop, which change the way the history is told. It is up to the viewer to determine the boarder between photography and painting as well as from the narration and fixed image.

With help from the highly soluble photography and high-quality elaboration, C-print on Dia, almost all details remain as well as the cinematic style of the video photograpy and that of the painterly style, which creates something completely new. The artistic processing of the elements (photographic fixed image or painting) leaves it perfectly vague. Only when the viewer looks closely can he or she differentiate between photograpy and painting.

Each of the 16 works is a Unikat, for only one of each exists, making it unique and individual, yet functioning entirely in a combination. Alpensaga is a national conscious work from Austria about Austria.