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Gunter Brus BIOGRAPHY
1938 - 2024 Gras, Austria. Known for: Human body as canvas painting, drawings, history themes, graphics.
"Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Alex Williams, March 1. 2024. A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism,... Read full biography
"Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Alex Williams, March 1. 2024. A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood and excrement as his materials. Günter Brus, a founder of the... Read full biography
"Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Alex Williams, March 1. 2024. A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood and excrement as his materials. Günter Brus, a founder of the radical art movement known as Viennese Actionism, who courted outrage and arrest in the 1960s by using his body — and bodily effluvia — to shatter the bourgeois civility of a country haunted by its... Read full biography
"Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Alex Williams, March 1. 2024. A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood and excrement as his materials. Günter Brus, a founder of the radical art movement known as Viennese Actionism, who courted outrage and arrest in the 1960s by using his body — and bodily effluvia — to shatter the bourgeois civility of a country haunted by its Nazi past, died on Feb. 10 in Graz, Austria. He was 85. His death was announced in a statement by Kunsthaus Bregenz, an art museum in Bregenz, Austria, that is currently hosting an exhibition by Mr. Brus. The museum did not say where he died or cite... Read full biography
"Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Alex Williams, March 1. 2024. A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood and excrement as his materials. Günter Brus, a founder of the radical art movement known as Viennese Actionism, who courted outrage and arrest in the 1960s by using his body — and bodily effluvia — to shatter the bourgeois civility of a country haunted by its Nazi past, died on Feb. 10 in Graz, Austria. He was 85. His death was announced in a statement by Kunsthaus Bregenz, an art museum in Bregenz, Austria, that is currently hosting an exhibition by Mr. Brus. The museum did not say where he died or cite the cause. The weight of his nation’s history bore heavily... Read full biography
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"Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Alex Williams, March 1. 2024A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood and excrement as his materials.Günter Brus, a founder of the radical art movement known as Viennese Actionism, who courted outrage and arrest in the 1960s by using his body — and bodily effluvia — to shatter the bourgeois civility of a country haunted by its Nazi past, died on Feb. 10 in Graz, Austria. He was 85.His death was announced in a statement by Kunsthaus Bregenz, an art museum in Bregenz, Austria, that is currently hosting an exh...But wait, there's more...
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