Hermann Nitsch, the Austrian artist who used blood, viscera, and splattered paint in ritualistic and often controversial artworks about religion, war, and metaphysics, died yesterday, April 18, 2022.

Hermann Nitsch, “135.Action part 2” at the Havana Biennial (photo © Fondazione Morra, courtesy Museum of Old and New Art) “We are opposed to this event, which ...

The transgressive, blood-loving Hermann Nitsch, a boundary defying artist who died this April at the age of 83, had his final hurrah at an Austrian castle in late July according to plans carefully ...

Hermann Nitsch’s 150.Action performance on June 17 at the MONA Museum’s Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart, Australia. @christianbishopstudio/Instagram Prior to the weekend’s show, Nitsch’s plans to ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. Following the staging of the polarising “performance ritual” on Saturday that involved a dead bull, its ...

During a sacrifice, King Attalus presses two words into the liver of the slaughtered animal. Engraving by Bernhard Rode, ca. 1780. Wikimedia Commons Now 78 years old, Hermann Nitsch is a founding ...

Hermann Nitsch pictured in front of one of his works at a 2006 retrospective. Gero Breloer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The performance art of Hermann Nitsch, a man ...

“BLATANTLY offensive” and unworthy of the city’s support — that’s how Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey has described Hermann Nitsch’s performance art piece for Dark Mofo. Nitsch, 78, plans to present ...

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 ...

For the two large paintings, the assistants paced down the median of the two parallel canvases. The consistent patter of footsteps seem to have lasted for 10 minutes. It was almost trance-inducing, ...

Following the staging of the polarising “performance ritual” on Saturday that involved a dead bull, its entrails and 500 litres of blood, the 78-year-old talked about his work yesterday “in ...