Otto Muehl

Biography

Otto Muehl was an Austrian artist and co-founder of Viennese Actionism, known for his radical approach to art and his founding of the Friedrichshof Commune. In the 1960s, he sought to destroy the conventions of easel painting, and later, he founded the commune, which would later be viewed as an authoritarian sect. In 1991, Muehl was convicted of sexual offenses and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, which he served before being released in 1997.