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ID: 500098254
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500098254
 
Record Type: Person
Brus, Günter (Austrian performance artist, draftsman, and painter, 1938-2024)

Note: Brus was among the Viennese Actionists who used their bodies in confrontational ways, staging performances that were intended as provocations in an increasingly conservative Austria.
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Names:
Brus, Günter (preferred,V,index,LCO,English-P,NA,U)
Brus, Günter (Dutch-P,NA)
Günter Brus (V,display)
Brus, Gunter (V)
Gunter Brus (V)
Brus (U)

Nationalities:
Austrian (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
performance artist
draftsman
painter
filmmaker
graphic artist
author
photographer
poet
musician
designer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Austria (Europe) (nation)

Events:
active:   Graz (Steiermark, Austria) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Muehl, Otto  
................................  (Austrian performance artist, painter and writer, 1925-2013) [500057191]
collaborated with ....  Nitsch, Hermann  
................................  (Austrian performance artist, painter, and composer, 1938-2022) [500097958]
student of ....  Bäumer, Eduard  
..................  (German painter and printmaker, 1892-1977) [500002993]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Brus, Günter (I)

Biographies:
(Austrian performance artist, draftsman, and painter, 1938-2024) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Austrian painter, b.1938) ..... [BHA]
(Austrian artist, born 1938) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Austrian performance artist) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(performance artist, born 1938) ..... [GRL]
(Austrian artist, born 1938) ..... [MoMA]
(Austrian performance artist, 1938-) ..... [RKD]
(Austrian painter, born 1938) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Brus ........ [GRL]
...........  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
...........  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Brus, Günter ........ [Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP]
..........................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 540
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..........................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
..........................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) NAFL84036237, accessed 28 April 2010
..........................  Neue Galerie Graz, Rewind/ Fast Forward (2009) 68
..........................  Phillips and Kaiser, Harald Szeemann (2018)
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 13582
Brus, Gunter ........ [WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................  Witt Library, Authority files
Günter Brus ........ [GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
........................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Gunter Brus ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [Belvedere, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 540
....................  Art Index (1929-) Apr. 1976
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976) 2:366
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Brus, Nitsch, Rainer, c1984: t.p. (Brus) p. 3 (b. 1938) p. 5 (G$04unter Brus)
....................  Colóquio: Artes 22 (1975)
....................  DuMonts Künstlerlexikon von 1945 (1979)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84036237
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 5 August 2005
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1983
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84036237
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84036237
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Artists (1989)
....................  Neue Galerie Graz, Rewind/ Fast Forward (2009) 68
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 13582
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q677218
....................  Wikipedia (2000-) (G$04unter Brus; born September 27, 1938; Ardning, Styria, Austria; controversial Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist and writer; co-founder in 1964 of Viennese Actionism)
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Art News online (2005-)
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