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Austrian avant-garde artist Hermann Nitsch has died at age 83. He was known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails. Nitsch’s wife said Tuesday
He was a founding father of the Viennese Actionists, a group of radical artists who used their bodies and other elements to upend art-making at the dawn of the 1960s.
Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83. Nitsch’s wife, Rita Nitsch, told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday that Nitsch died at a hospital in the Austrian town of Mistelbach on Monday after a serious illness. Nitsch,…
BERLIN -- Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83.
"Hermann Nitsch died peacefully at the age of 83 after a serious illness," a statement from the family said.