artists
Günter Brus
(b.1938)
Inspired by German and Austrian Expressionism at the turn of the century, Brus began his career as a commercial graphic artist. Experiments with the traditional notion of “painting” are best embodied in 6th Action: Vienna Walk (1965), in which he walked through the city of Vienna as a ‘living picture’, fully painted in white, with a black line dividing his body in two halves. A collection of his works can be found in the Bruneum, Graz’ Neue Galerie; Tate, London; and the Sammlung Friedrichshof, Austria.