Lot No. 303


Hermann Nitsch *


(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Splatter painting with painting shirt with heavy impasto, signed and dated hermann nitsch 2005 on the reverse, and on the stretcher with archive number ROLF05, acrylic on burlap, fixed on wooden frame at the top and bottom edges, stretched on wooden frame along the left and right edge, 200 x 300 cm

Photo of the painting on the reverse signed hermann nitsch available;

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy

»Ich wollte Intensität und habe dadurch automatisch provoziert aber ich wollte nicht provozieren. ich habe damals schon so grundsätzlich auf die gesellschaft geschissen, dass meine arbeit eigentlich gerade deshalb nicht mehr gesellschaftskritisch intendiert war - weit darüber hinaus.»
- Hermann Nitsch

»i aimed at intensity and thus automatically provoked. but i never wanted to provoke. i fundamentally did not give a shit about society even then, which is why my work really was not intended to be critical of society anymore - it went far beyond that.«
- Hermann Nitsch

Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358

elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at

29.11.2023 - 18:00

Estimate:
EUR 75,000.- to EUR 120,000.-

Hermann Nitsch *


(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Splatter painting with painting shirt with heavy impasto, signed and dated hermann nitsch 2005 on the reverse, and on the stretcher with archive number ROLF05, acrylic on burlap, fixed on wooden frame at the top and bottom edges, stretched on wooden frame along the left and right edge, 200 x 300 cm

Photo of the painting on the reverse signed hermann nitsch available;

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy

»Ich wollte Intensität und habe dadurch automatisch provoziert aber ich wollte nicht provozieren. ich habe damals schon so grundsätzlich auf die gesellschaft geschissen, dass meine arbeit eigentlich gerade deshalb nicht mehr gesellschaftskritisch intendiert war - weit darüber hinaus.»
- Hermann Nitsch

»i aimed at intensity and thus automatically provoked. but i never wanted to provoke. i fundamentally did not give a shit about society even then, which is why my work really was not intended to be critical of society anymore - it went far beyond that.«
- Hermann Nitsch

Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358

elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Contemporary Art I
Auction type: Saleroom auction with Live Bidding
Date: 29.11.2023 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 18.11. - 29.11.2023

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