Biografia

16 de junho de 1925 · Grodnau, Burgenland, Áustria

26 de maio de 2013 · Moncarapacho, Olhão, Portugal (Parkinson's disease)

Austrian performance artist, painter, writer and film maker. In the 1960s, his work dealt with the social taboos surrounding sexuality, to the point that "Art and Revolution," performed at the University of Vienna in July, 1968, led to arrests. After 1966 he was a founder-member of the Institut fur Direkte Kunst.

Wanted to kill a live chicken on stage at the NFT but this was vetoed by The NFT.

In 1991, Muehl was convicted of illicit drug use and sex with minors while acting, for 20 years, as the autocratic governor of the Kommune Friedrichshof, a commune in the Burgenland province, east of Vienna, where behavior was governed by an eclectic theory of sexual and political liberation called Aktionsanalyse. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, of which he served six and a half.

It is the assignment of the artist to destroy art and come closer to reality. The artist has the responsibility to change himself and society as well.