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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1938-09-27
- Active to
- 2024-02-10
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Günter Brus (born September 27, 1938, Ardning, Styria) is an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist and writer. He was the co-founder in 1964 of Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism) together with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. His aggressively presented actionism intentionally disregarded conventions and taboos. Sentenced to 6 months in prison after the "Kunst und Revolution" event at the University of Vienna in 1968, he fled to Berlin with his family and
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Günther
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Ardning
- Place of death
- Graz
- Occupation
- artist
- Languages spoken
- German
- Movement
- Viennese Actionism
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- date of birth
- 1938-09-27
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- 1986-01-01
- Commons category
- Günter Brus
- date of death
- 2024-02-10
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