Hermann Nitsch *
(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Untitled, Splatterpainting, signed and dated on the reverse hermann nitsch 1992, on the stretcher with inventory number SERIE XI 1 92, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, on stretcher
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Rita Nitsch, issued Prinzendorf 20 March 2026.
Provenance:
Galerie RX, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the above)
...in 1989, I made my long-held dream a reality.
I used all the colours I had to hand, including black, for the ritual of action painting. …
Colour is an instance of the clearest level of alertness, the most intense level of existence.
You rarely dream in colour. COLOUR IS EXISTENCE, MOVEMENT, LIGHT.
The power of all the innumerable SUNS unfolding, their atoms splitting.
Colour is the most wonderful surplus, abundance of nature, the innermost, deepest EXISTENCE and greatest MOMENT of perpetual creation and renewal, perpetual birth and RESURRECTION. Colour is the opposite of the night of NOTHINGNESS. Colour is the wonderful, radiant, laughing event of being, all the senses perceive colour, EXISTENCE, through the eye’s taste.
Hermann Nitsch in: farbenlehre 1979-91,
Hermann Nitsch, Das Gesamtkunstwerk des Orgien Mysterium Theaters, Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König, 2015
Specialist: Mag. Barbara Freisitzer
(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Untitled, Splatterpainting, signed and dated on the reverse hermann nitsch 1992, on the stretcher with inventory number SERIE XI 1 92, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, on stretcher
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Rita Nitsch, issued Prinzendorf 20 March 2026.
Provenance:
Galerie RX, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the above)
...in 1989, I made my long-held dream a reality.
I used all the colours I had to hand, including black, for the ritual of action painting. …
Colour is an instance of the clearest level of alertness, the most intense level of existence.
You rarely dream in colour. COLOUR IS EXISTENCE, MOVEMENT, LIGHT.
The power of all the innumerable SUNS unfolding, their atoms splitting.
Colour is the most wonderful surplus, abundance of nature, the innermost, deepest EXISTENCE and greatest MOMENT of perpetual creation and renewal, perpetual birth and RESURRECTION. Colour is the opposite of the night of NOTHINGNESS. Colour is the wonderful, radiant, laughing event of being, all the senses perceive colour, EXISTENCE, through the eye’s taste.
Hermann Nitsch in: farbenlehre 1979-91,
Hermann Nitsch, Das Gesamtkunstwerk des Orgien Mysterium Theaters, Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König, 2015
Specialist: Mag. Barbara Freisitzer
