NITSCH, HERMANN
1938 Vienna - 2022 Mistelbach

Title: Untitled.
Date: 1987.
Technique: Oil and blood on card. Mounted on canvas.
Measurement: 100 x 165cm.
Notation: Signed and dated upper left: hermann nitsch 1987. Here also illegibly inscribed.


The work was created in the course of the 20th painting event of the Vienna Secession on 18th February 1987. The work is accompanied by an expertise from Atelier Hermann Nitsch, Vienna, dated 10th October 2023. The work is registered there under the archive number P_100x165_87.

Provenance:
- Galerie Academia, Salzburg (1993, acc. to the consignor)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

- From the main protagonist of Viennese Actionism
- The spontaneous creative process of Nitsch's legendary action art is captured in this expressive work
- The colour red dominates Nitsch's oeuvre and symbolises fire, love, flesh and blood and life and death.