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Gunter Brus

Gunter Brus (1938 - 2024) was active/lived in Austria.  Gunter Brus is 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, 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 on Mr. Brus, who was born in the village of Ardning in 1938, the year of the Anschluss, the annexati   ...  [Displaying 929 of 7953 characters.]  Artist bio

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