Gunter Brus
Austrian performance artist, draughtsman, painter and film maker. Persuaded by Otto Muehl to create, with his wife Anni, his first Aktion or performance, Ana, in November 1964, which he recorded on film in the first of a series of collaborations with the film maker Kurt Kren (b 1920). This led to his first self-painting Aktion, Self-painting 1: Painting by Hand, Painting by Head, Painting the Head, performed the following month. With Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler he was a founder-member of the Aktionismus group, and with Muehl he helped found the Institut für Direkte Kunst in 1966.
Austrian performance artist, draughtsman, painter and film maker. Persuaded by Otto Muehl to create, with his wife Anni, his first Aktion or performance, Ana, in November 1964, which he recorded on film in the first of a series of collaborations with the film maker Kurt Kren (b 1920). This led to his first self-painting Aktion, Self-painting 1: Painting by Hand, Painting by Head, Painting the Head, performed the following month. With Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler he was a founder-member of the Aktionismus group, and with Muehl he helped found the Institut für Direkte Kunst in 1966.
Die Geheimnisträge
A lovely audio book edition comprising more than six and a half hours of exceptional audio entertainment, read by Wolfram Berger and accompanied by music from the col legno catalogue. The legendary aktionist artist Günter Brus’ selection of music includes composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, Olga Neuwirth, Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, Franz Koglmann and others.
Bodyanalysis: Actions 1964-1970
A core member of the artist collective around Hermann Nitsch, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler -- instigators of Viennese Actionism -- it was during the early 1960s that Viennese painter, performance artist, graphic artist and writer Günter Brus staged his first actions in Vienna. Due to the radical nature of his works, Brus soon found himself at odds with the Austrian authorities. Sentenced to six months of close arrest, in 1970 Brus absconded to Berlin. During the subsequent years, his…