Nitsch Hermann

Hermann Nitsch (Vienna, 1938 – Mistelbach 2022) is one of the most famous international artists of the second half of the XX century. He is an exponent of the Wiener Aktionismus with Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler that around the 60s become the major expression of the European Body Art movement. Between 1957 and 1960 Nitsch has developed the project for his Orgies Mysteries Theater, an expression of total art (Gesamtkunstwerk) related to the psycho-analytical concept of abreaction, an emotional motion that allows a subject to remove the effects of dramatic events. By allowing the cathartic liberation from religious, moralistic and sexual taboos, Nitsch proposes the enactment of ancestral rituals and ceremonies.

The following collections and museums own works of Hermann Nitsch: AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino Italy; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France; Guggenheim Collection, New York USA; Kunstmuseum, Bern Switzerland; MAMBO Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna Italy; MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento Italy; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York USA; MOMA Museum of Modern Art, New York USA; Mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien Austria; Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli Italy and many more.