Several shows are recognising Guenter Brus, the last surviving key member of Vienna's famed 'actionists', who turned 85 this week and whose radical movement broke new ground using the body to make art.
Several shows are recognising Guenter Brus, the last surviving key member of Vienna's famed"actionists", who turned 85 this week and whose radical movement broke new ground using the body to make art. The actionists did not shy away from using blood, urine and excrement as they defied the confines of traditional painting.
Born on September 27, 1938, in the village of Ardning in central Austria, Brus studied art in Graz before moving to Vienna where he worked with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler -- the other actionists. Brus openly spoke up about the country's dark past, saying in a 2018 interview with the Belvedere Museum that"Vienna, as all of Austria, was contaminated by aging Nazis".Brus, with his wife Anna and their young daughter, fled Vienna in 1969 after he was sentenced to six months in jail for degrading Austrian state symbols.
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