Following the great success of the Orgien-Mysterien-Theater at the end of the 1960s in the USA and Germany, Nitsch carried out actions in many European and North American cities during the 1970s, from 1971 in Prinzendorf Castle, which he had acquired. He also taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, took part in Documenta 5 curated by Harald Szeemann in Kassel in 1972 (and participated again in 1982) and brought his ideas of art and ritual to opera and theater performances. His works have received numerous awards and have been included in renowned private and public collections in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Great Britain, Canada and the USA. (e.g. Albertina, Vienna – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent – Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main – Museum Ludwig, Cologne – Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich – Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen – Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris – Tate Britain, London – National Gallery of Canada – Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – Museum of Modern Art, New York – National Gallery of Art, Washington). The monumental “Schwarze Schüttbild” presented at the Fair for Art Vienna dates from a creative phase in which the artist’s influence on the Austrian and international art and cultural scene was already great, as both the Nitsch Foundation, founded in 2009, and the two Hermann Nitsch Museums in Mistelbach and Naples attest.