Bulk image, 2017

Wall object made of acrylic and blood on jute/canvas

Mass: 150 x 200 cm

Herman Nitsch's first Schüttbilder were created in 1960, two years before the beginning of Viennese Actionism. Together with Otto Mühl and Adolf Frohner he realised the action "The Blood Organ" in Vienna, for which a joint manifesto was also published. Subsequently, he developed the main ideas for his Orgien-Mysterien-Theater. Incorporating all art forms (painting, architecture, music, sacrificial ritual, mass liturgy, etc.), his actions and images are intended to cause disgust and revulsion in the spectators at first, then a catharsis.

On 24 May 2007, the "Hermann Nitsch Museum" was opened in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, and on 13 September 2008, Nitsch's long-time gallery owner Peppe Morra opened the "Museo Archivio Laboratorio per le Arti Contemporanee Hermann Nitsch" in Naples, a museum dedicated exclusively to Nitsch's work. In 2005, Nitsch was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts.

Hermann Nitsch last lived in his castle Prinzendorf in the Austrian Weinviertel.