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Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, famous for his paintings and performances using animal blood and carcasses, has died at age 83, his family said on Tuesday. Nitsch died at a hospital in Lower Austria province on Monday, his niece told AFP. “Hermann Nitsch died peacefully at the age of 83 after a serious illness,” a statement from the family said.
Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, famous for his paintings and performances using human blood and animal carcasses, has died at age 83, his family said Tuesday.
BERLIN (AP) — 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.
Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian artist known for his paintings and performances involving human blood and animal carcasses, died on Tuesday at the age of 83, according to his family. According to his niece, Nitsch died on Monday in a hospital in Lower Austria. The family announced in a statement that "Hermann Nitsch died peacefully at the age of 83 after a long illness." Nitsch belonged to the "Actionists," a radical avant-garde group known in the 1960s for skinning animal carcasses, tying up human bodies, and creating works with blood, mud, and urine.
The infamous Austrian experimental artist has passed away at the age of 83. His bloody and ritualistic installations featuring slaughtered animals often dealt with religion.