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Hermann Nitsch, Ohne Titel, 1983, Acryl auf Leinwand, 200 x 600 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. L…

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Ohne Titel
Date1983

Künstler*in Hermann Nitsch (1938 Wien – 2022 Mistelbach)

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Object typeGemälde
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions
ungerahmt: 212 × 585 × 5 cm
SignatureBez. links unten am Keilrahmen
Inventory numberLg 1189
Locations Derzeit nicht ausgestellt
Credit LineDauerleihgabe Christine König Galerie
In the 1960s, the painter and Actionist Hermann Nitsch started working on his idea of the Orgien-Mysterien-Theater (Theater of Orgies and Mysteries). The concept combined drama, cult, music, and painting and aimed to explore one’s own existence in a sensual, ritualistic, and provocative way. A fundamental part of the orchestration was the highly physical and gestural use of paint or animal blood, an approach Nitsch developed out of Viennese Actionism. This roughly six-meter-long work was created in summer 1983 as part of the 16th Action at Prinzendorf Palace. Carefree, fresh, and spontaneous was how Nitsch described this action, which involved using his bare hands to apply buckets of blood-red paint on the canvas stretched across the wall.

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