He was a founding father of a group of radical artists who used their bodies and other elements to upend art-making at the dawn of the 1960s. By Penelope Green Hermann Nitsch, the notorious ...

Hermann Nitsch, a leading artist of the Austrian avant-garde whose blood-splattered canvases and ritualistic performances involving animal slaughter and crucifixion sparked scandal and sensation ...

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 ...

and is an influence on scores of younger artists, Hermann Nitsch is not a household name—at least, not in the United States. But gallerist Marc Straus would like to change that. Housed on an ...

Nitsch became a leading exponent of Viennese Actionism, the 1960s art movement (APA/AFP/Getty) Hermann Nitsch, a leading artist of the Austrian avant-garde whose blood-splattered canvases and ...

This is the grotesque world of Hermann Nitsch, a self-proclaimed “ritual artist” whose bizarre works are drawing large crowds -- and allegations of blasphemy and animal cruelty. A ...

The artist was head priest ... s report from the Nitsch event in New York will be published tomorrow. Hermann Nitsch’s 60. Painting Action // 60. Malaktion Action Painting continues today ...

Engraving by Bernhard Rode, ca. 1780. Wikimedia Commons Now 78 years old, Hermann Nitsch is a founding member of the Viennese Actionists, an art movement that captured the public’s attention ...

An Austrian artist who became known as the 'enfant terrible' of art for shows that featured dead animals and lashings of blood has died aged 83. Hermann Nitsch died at a hospital in the Austrian ...

MEXICO CITY — On the eve of this city’s biggest art fair, Zona MACO, the Museo Jumex quietly decided to cancel its upcoming Hermann Nitsch exhibition. Its Wikipedia entry calls it “a short ...