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Catalogue
- Year
- 1985
- Dimensions
- image: 430 x 295 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Artist
- Günter Brus
Artist

Painting
Günter Brus was an Austrian artist and pioneer of action art and body performance in the 1960s. Working across drawing, painting, and live performance, he used his own body as both subject and material, creating visceral works that rejected conventional gallery spaces and institutional constraints. His early gestural paintings evolved into increasingly radical performance interventions that addressed bodily autonomy, social taboos, and the limits of acceptable artistic expression. Based in Vienna, Brus remained a foundational figure in European performance and conceptual art through subsequent decades of drawing, writing, and installation work.
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Untitled from Depth Obscured (Vertiefung Mit Bewölkung)
1985 · One from a portfolio of five drypoint and photogravures
Depth Obscured (Vertiefung Mit Bewölkung)
1985 · Portfolio of five drypoint and photogravures
Untitled from Depth Obscured (Vertiefung Mit Bewölkung)
1985 · One from a portfolio of five drypoint and photogravures
Untitled from Depth Obscured (Vertiefung Mit Bewölkung)
1985 · One from a portfolio of five drypoint and photogravures
Untitled from Depth Obscured (Vertiefung Mit Bewölkung)
1985 · One from a portfolio of five drypoint and photogravures
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1985 · Drypoint and etching on paper
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- Günter Brus
- Year
- 1985
- Dimensions
- image: 430 x 295 mm
- Watts ID
- WW-1985-215198
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- Tate
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