The transgressive, blood-loving Hermann Nitsch, a boundary defying artist who died this April at the age of 83, had his final hurrah at an Austrian castle in late July according to plans carefully ...
MEXICO CITY — On the eve of this city’s biggest art fair, Zona MACO, the Museo Jumex quietly decided to cancel its upcoming Hermann Nitsch exhibition. In a statement given to Artnet News, Nitsch ...
Hermann Nitsch, the Austrian artist who used blood, viscera, and splattered paint in ritualistic and often controversial artworks about religion, war, and metaphysics, died yesterday, April 18, 2022.
Nothing prepared me for the retch-inducing scent of gushing blood at Hermann Nitsch’s posthumous performance at the Prinzendorf castle, the late artist’s estate in Lower Austria. Even when paired with ...
Hermann Nitsch, the founding member of Viennese Actionism—a movement known for its violent, ritualistic performances that often confront moral taboos—died on 18 April at the age of 83. His death was ...
FILE -Action artist Hermann Nitsch sits in front of the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany, July 23, 2021. Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist who was known among other things for “Action" ...
Hermann Nitsch, “135.Action part 2” at the Havana Biennial (photo © Fondazione Morra, courtesy Museum of Old and New Art) “We are opposed to this event, which ...
Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, famous for his paintings and performances using animal blood and carcasses, has died at age 83, his family said Tuesday. Nitsch died at a hospital in Lower Austria ...
An Austrian artist who became known as the 'enfant terrible' of art for shows that featured dead animals and lashings of blood has died aged 83. Hermann Nitsch died at a hospital in the Austrian town ...
Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) is remembered in the arts of the second half of the 20 th century for his decisive role in Viennese Actionism. In 1957, he formulated the principles of what he called ...
He was a founding father of a group of radical artists who used their bodies and other elements to upend art-making at the dawn of the 1960s. By Penelope Green Hermann Nitsch, the notorious Austrian ...
From September 11 to 14, 2025, Vienna becomes the crossroads of international contemporary art with the 11th edition of viennacontemporary. When I started writing this review about “All Our Todays.