Despite the fact that he’s been making art for almost six decades, has three museums dedicated to his work, and is an influence on scores of younger artists, Hermann Nitsch is not a household name—at ...

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 ...

Pulling the canvases off the opposite walls in the far space at Mike Weiss Gallery before the first layer of paint is thrown. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I giggled like a giddy ...

"In my conceptions of being, there is everything, life, death, illness, pain, aggression... Through my work, I want to show all of this," Hermann Nitsch said in 2011 in response to criticism that ...

Renowned Austrian performance artist Hermann Nitsch has opened an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Turkey's victory at the Battle of Gallipoli. Renowned Austrian performance artist ...

Hermann Nitsch, a leading artist of the Austrian avant-garde whose blood-splattered canvases and ritualistic performances involving animal slaughter and crucifixion sparked scandal and sensation in ...

Hermann Nitsch's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 726,727 USD for paintings, and 170,426 USD for works on papers. In the past 12 months, his paintings ...

189 x 280 cm. (74.4 x 110.2 in.) Splatter painting with chemise and impasto painting, signed and dated hermann nitsch 1997 on the reverse, oil on burlap,189 x 280 cm, stretched over wooden frame Photo ...

For the two large paintings, the assistants paced down the median of the two parallel canvases. The consistent patter of footsteps seem to have lasted for 10 minutes. It was almost trance-inducing, ...

The infamous Austrian experimental artist has passed away at the age of 83. His bloody and ritualistic installations featuring slaughtered animals often dealt with religion. Austrian artist Hermann ...

BERLIN -- Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83. Nitsch's wife, Rita Nitsch, told the ...

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