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Hermann Nitsch
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Hermann NitschBFII_02_21, 2021Acrylic on Canvas200 x 300 cm
78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in -
“It is with an incredibly great sense of joy to be able to concentrate on the floral vibrancy of the smeared paint substance in the works i am still capable of producing as an eighty year-old. More than ever, resurrection is a principle to me.”
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Hermann NitschBFII_03_21, 2021Acrylic on Canvas200 x 300 cm
78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in -
The highpoints of Hermann Nitsch’s projects are the “three day play” of 1984 in Prinzendorf or the cycle of pour paintings he creates in 1987 at the Vienna Secession. The ideal of the “six day play” is performed in 1998 – this involved the participation of 500 people in an action that opened up a new dimension of excessive and tragic experience.Since the 1990s Nitsch’s art is increasingly honoured in a series of exhibitions, which are frequently accompanied by performance actions by the artist. Of particular significance in this regard are the two major retrospectives in the Essl Museum and subsequently at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, or the tribute to Nitsch through the 2019 exhibition in the Albertina in Vienna. Recently, Nitsch has increasingly devoted himself to the theme of resurrection in his painting.In the summer of 2021, Hermann Nitsch was invited by the Bayreuth Festival to provide scenic accompaniment to a concert version of Richard Wagner’s “Walküre”. For this purpose, the artist has created an extensive painting campaign for each of the three acts. All three acts of the “Walküre” were accompanied by a self-contained painting action, in which the score is transformed scene by scene into luminous colours with the help of ten painting assistants. In the process, up to 1,000 litres of paint got spilt per performance. In this production in Bayreuth, two giants of the Gesamtkunstwerk merged.At the centre of Nitsch’s Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) is the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, into which all the artist’s endeavours culminate. Everything Nitsch creates, thinks, writes, paints, draws, stages or composes serves to further develop this basic idea. It is about presence, immediacy, intensity, abreaction and catharsis. For the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, Nitsch has expanded the common concept of theatre. The separation between stage and auditorium is abolished, making everyone present a participant in the play who can experience the events directly and with all five senses. With the concept of the Orgies Mysteries Theatre and the actions that many saw as radical, Hermann Nitsch revolutionised the concept of theatre in the 20th century.
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Hermann NitschSchüttbild , 2021Acrylic on Canvas200 x 300 cm
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Hermann NitschSchüttbild, 2021Acrylic on Canvas200 x 300 cm
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"Die Walküre - Bayreuther Festspiele 2021"
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Hermann Nitsch | Drawings
"The sensual arousal of the painter is needed. Awakening the dionysian, awakening the unconscious detects, as a seismograph does quakes, the organic excess of creation. ... Like the big bang. The pencil of the child seeks to scribble, things sanctified by civilisation are scribbled on in some way, defiled. ... Something rubs off, dirties, smudges, a cosmic innocence attempts (unthinkingly) to tentatively leave traces. ... The primeval form of the creative, not only artistically, happens. the cosmic creative act, realizing what is alive and vital, is performed. My scribbling tries to penetrate deep into being, into the groundless (without beginning and end), into the fundamental excess. A total, extensive automatism is applied. The situation of the drives of the unconscious expresses its quakes and shudders through gestures."- Hermann Nitsch about his unique drawings -
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Hermann Nitsch lived and worked at Prinzendorf Castle by the Zaya River, Lower Austria, as well as in Asolo, Italy. His works are exhibited in the two monographic museums in Mistelbach and Naples as well as in the Nitsch Foundation in Vienna and in prestigious international museums and galleries.Hermann Nitsch passed away in peace on April 18, 2022 after a serious illness at the age of 83.
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Collections
moma, new york; guggenheim collection, new york; metropolitan museum, new york; museum university of yale; walker art center, mineapolis; hammer museum, los angeles; busch-reisinger museum harvard university, cambridge; saint louis art museum, st. louis, missouri; richard massey foundation, new york; hudson valley center for contemporary art, peekskill, new york; tang, saratoga springs, new york; station museum of contemporary art houston, texas; gallery of ontario, toronto; state tretyakov gallery, moscow; um museum, gyeonggi-do; tate gallery, london; musée centre georges pompidou, paris; stedelijk van; abbe museum, eindhoven; stedelijk museum, amsterdam; design museum den bosch, s’hertogenbosch ; castello di rivoli, rivoli; gam, turin; museo di capodimonte, neapel; museo nitsch, neapel; galleria d´arte moderna, bologna; mart, rovereto; mar – museo d’arte della città di ravenna; kunstsammlung nordrhein-westfalen, düsseldorf; sammlung jaegers, dusseldorf; museum ludwig, cologne; nationalgalerie berlin; lenbachhaus, münchen; staatsgemäldesammlung munich; museum brandhorst, munich; graphische sammlung, munich; duerckheim collection, munich; staatsgalerie stuttgart; kunsthalle hamburg; museum neue galerie, saarbrücken; albertinum, dresden; schloss moorsbroich, leverkusen; gfzk, leipzig, kunstmuseum bern; hall art foundation, derneburg; kunstmuseum winterthur; mumok, vienna; albertina, vienna; österreichische galerie belvedere, vienna; leopold museum, vienna; landessammlungen nö, st. pölten; lentos, linz; rupertinum, salzburg; ferdinandeum, innsbruck; sammlung essl, klosterneuburg; nitsch museum, mistelbach
Hermann Nitsch - Bayreuth Festival 2021
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