Wiener Aktionismus
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English name for Performance art, specifically applied to the Vienna based group Wiener Aktionismus established in 1962. The main members of the group included Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolph Schwarzkogler.
He was the co-founder in 1964 of Wiener Aktionismus. Through this piece and other performance works, Brus hoped to reveal the still fascist essence of Austria. Brus was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1997.
The exponents of the Wiener Aktionismus were authors of particularly extreme happenings and performances, which were akin to behavioural research.
 See also: School, Movement, Actionism, Art movement, Contemporary art
  
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