Brus sets Austrian Contemporary artist record

In the 1960s, the Austrian painter Günter Brus (b.1938) regularly made the headlines with his artistic happenings, which often involved covering himself and his models in paint and on one occasion, in 1965, led to him being arrested.

He had tried to walk through the centre of Vienna, painted from head to toe in white with a black …

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