Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch was an Austrian avant-garde painter, composer, and performance artist who worked in experimental and multimedia modes. He was a co-founder of the notorious art movement known as the Viennese Aktionists. With his project Orgien Mysterien Theater ("the Orgiastic Mystery Theater"), Nitsch immersed his audiences in scenes and symbols heavily charged with meaning: religious imagery, crucified bodies, butchered animals, buckets of entrails, and blood (that often coated his performers), enormous tunics, large canvasses, cartloads of paint, enormous brass and percussion...