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Hermann Nitsch
Austrian artist (1938-2022)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 August 1938
- Died
- 18 April 2022
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Mistelbach
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Hermann
- Family name
- Nitsch
- Movement
- Viennese Actionism
- Field of work
- visual arts, installation art
- Occupation
- artist, experimental artist, painter, composer, photographer, performance artist, docent, theatre designer, graphic artist, installation artist, university teacher, writer
- Position held
- full professor
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives
- contributed to creative work
- Infermental 4
- copyright representative
- reproduction right represented by CISAC-member, Hermann Nitsch, reproduction right not represented by CISAC member
- described by source
- UbuWeb, mediakunst.net
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 2010
- has works in the collection
- Belvedere, Städel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, National Gallery of Canada, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Yale University Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art
- influenced by
- Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Diego Velázquez, Titian, Vincent van Gogh
- name in native language
- Hermann Nitsch
- notable work
- 120. Aktion, 122. Aktion
- owner of
- Prinzendorf Castle
- participant in
- Documenta 5, documenta 7, Destruction in Art Symposium
- start of work period
- 1961
- work location
- Hauskirchen, United States, Salzburg, Germany, Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples
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