Otto Muehl - Artist Info

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    Following is the obituary of the artist from The New York Times.

    Otto Muehl, Actionist Artist, Dies at 87
    By MARGALIT FOX
    Published: May 29, 2013

    Otto Muehl, an artist whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon, died on Sunday in Portugal. He was 87 and had lived in Portugal since 1997, since his release from an Austrian prison after being convicted of having sex with minors.

    Danièle Roussel, the director of the Otto Muehl Archives, announced the death to European news agencies. Mr. Muehl had been ill with Parkinson's disease in recent years.

    A founder of Viennese Actionism, a school of radical performance art that sought to upend what it saw as the stul...

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