Trivia

In fall of 1960, influenced by German expressionism, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, abstract expressionism, and artists such as Emilio Vedova, he began to create artwork that was not confined to visual media.

Co-founder of Viennese Actionism.

Most of his works are shocking and controversial.

Works emerged that he called picture poems which opened a new section in Brus's work, the fruit of which is the rich graphic and literary work of the 1970s and 1980s.

Brus was an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer.

Shortly before his first major exhibition together with Schilling, he was conscripted into the military in May 1961. After completing his military service, he fell into a psychological crisis and did not start work again until the end of 1962.

He went to Vienna in 1956, where he studied painting and met his lifelong friend Alfons Schilling.

Brus was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1996.

Brus participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 and was represented as an artist at Documenta 6 (1977) and Documenta 7 in 1982.

Brus was a columnist and illustrator for the Austrian monthly magazine Datum since summer 2005.

From 1970 he began on his novel Irrwisch, which was underpinned by numerous drawings.