Brus, Günter
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Austrian, 20th century, male.
Born 1938, in Ardring.
Action artist, happenings artist, performance artist, draughtsman.
Fluxus, Body Art.
Aktionismus group.
Günter Brus studied from 1953 in Graz and Vienna and went on in the 1960s to become one of the principal figures in the Viennese Aktionismus (Actionist) School which proclaimed the concept of artistic freedom and mourned its incompatibility with the sclerotic bourgeois society of the post-Nazi years. He took part in various 'happenings' in ...
