Hermann Nitsch, father of Viennese Actionism, famous for his works made with blood, died
VIENNA – Hermann Nitsch (Vienna, 1938), the father ofViennese shareholding, died on April 18 at the age of 83 in a hospital in Mistelbach, Austria. It was his wife who announced it.
The artist who became famous for the Theater of the Mysteries of the Orgies
Nitsch’s has always been an art with controversial outlines, which in the past has also aroused several controversies among animal rights activists.
Born in Vienna in 1938, Nitsch at the age of 15 attended the Institute of Graphic Teaching and Research in the Austrian capital. His early works may be thematic for inherent to religion, which will never abandon him during his life.
Painter, sculptor, writer, composer, Nitsch, in the late 1950s, first conceived the idea of one sblood ritual petticoat as a total work of artcomposed of music, theater and painting (Orgien-Mysterien-Teatro – Theater of the Mysteries of the Orgies) who will dominate his work until his death. Blood and animal entrails became, in fact, his trademark.
1966 was the year of the international turning point for Nitsch with an invitation to London for the “Destruction in Art Symposium”. The action in front of an astonished audience was interrupted by the police; offers from around the world followed.
With Joseph Beuys, Günter Brus, Allan Kaprowbecame the pioneer of performing art, carrying out over 150 actions around the world.
Last year’s controversial live painting action for “The Valkyrieby Wagner in Bayreuth.
Currently there is an exhibition dedicated to him at the Workshop space 800 at the Fondamenta San Biagio, on the Giudecca island, entitled 20th pictorial action, a cure of Roman Grabner, open to the public from April 19 to July 20, 2022.
His works are exhibited in the most important museums and collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Collection in New York, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Tate in London, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam; Castello di Rivoli, Gam of Turin, Mart of Rovereto, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen of Düsseldorf, Museum Ludwig of Cologne, Nationalgalerie of Berlin, Lenbachhaus of Munich, Staatsgemäldesammlung of Momaco, Staatsgalerie of Stuttgart , the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Kunstmuseum in Bern, the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur, the Albertina in Vienna, the Mumok in Vienna, the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna and the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
There are even two museums dedicated to his work: a Naples it’s at MistelbachIn Austria.