Its main participants were Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.

It was a landmark of international recognition for the work of Brus, Mühl and Nitsch.

While the nature and content of each artist's work differed, there are distinct aesthetic and thematic threads connecting the Actions of Brus, Mühl, Nitsch and Schwarzkogler.

Brus ' " Hand Painting Head Painting " action of 1964, Mühl and Nitsch's " Degradation of a Female Body, Degradation of A Venus " of 1963 are characterized by their efforts to reconceive human bodies as surfaces for the production of art.

With this gesture of self-determination, Export emphatically asserted her identity within the Viennese art scene, which was then dominated by the taboo-breaking performance art of the Vienna Actionists such as Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.

In 1968, Muehl, Brus and Oswald Wiener organised an Aktionsveranstaltung " Kunst und Revolution " in the University of Vienna, which caused a scandal in the press ; they were arrested and Brus emigrated to Berlin.

* 1979: Song of the Brus: Japanese Painting from Sanso Collection ( Seattle: Seattle Art Museum )

The performances of Gunter Brus involved publicly urinating, defecating and cutting himself with a razor blade which had a powerful influence on later Abject Art from the 1980s and 1990s.

According to John Barbour's The Brus, written with access to people who were at the event, Comyn and Bruce had previously signed an agreement to that effect which Comyn betrayed to King Edward I.

The Vienna Action Group was formed in 1965 by Herman Nitsch, Otto Muhl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwartzkogler.

Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.

David II ( Medieval Gaelic: Daibhidh a Briuis, Modern Gaelic: Dàibhidh Bruis ; Norman French: Dauid de Brus ; 5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371 ) was King of Scots from 7 June 1329 until his death.

In early June, Ó Néill and some twelve fellow northern Kings and lords met Edward de Brus at Carrickfergus and swore fealty to him as King of Ireland.

In June 1968 Günter Brus began serving a six-month prison sentence for the crime of " degrading symbols of the state ", and later fled Austria to avoid a second arrest.

The following year, on 24 February 1310, William was one of twelve Scottish bishops to swear fealty to King Robert the Brus.

* Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, ( 1226 x 1233 – 1295 ), claimant to the Scottish crown following the death of the Maid of Norway

In several works of painters iquiteños ( such as Christian Bendayan, Roldán Pinedo, Elena Valera, Rember Yahuarcani, Brus Rubio and Victor Churay ), Amazonian pop art legacy has been a visual reference to create avant-garde works of contemporary life in the city and Amazonian culture.

Today his drawings continue to be a source of inspiration for both Swedish and international artists such as Arnulf Rainer, Günter Brus, Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Torsten Andersson, Ola Billgren, or Donald Baechler.

It was during this time that he composed, The Brus, receiving for this in 1377 the gift of ten pounds Scots, and in 1378 a life-pension of twenty shillings.

But his authorship of The Brus alone, both for its original employment of the chivalric genre, and as a tale of a struggle against tyranny, secures his place as an important and innovative literary voice who broke new linguistic ground.

De Brus may have been emulating his peers in Yorkshire, who had founded monastic institutions for their religious obligations.

Edward the Bruce ( Norman French: Edward de Brus ; Medieval Gaelic: Edubard a Briuis ; Modern Scottish Gaelic: Eideard or Iomhair Bruis ; 1280 – 14 October 1318 ), sometimes modernised Edward of Bruce, was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland, then pursued his own claim in Ireland.

The feudal Lordship of Writtle had for centuries been the possession of the de Brus family and early chroniclers give the manor there as the birthplace of Robert the Bruce.

For this and other work Sumio Iijima was awarded, together with Louis Brus, the inaugural Kavli Prize for nanoscience in 2008.

It was while Edward was at Lanercost that the brothers of Robert de Brus and other Scottish captives were sent to Carlisle for execution by his order.

It is famous for its connection with Ben Johnson and Robert the Bruce, as the de Brus family was given this land by David I in 1124, as one of the border lordships when David became Prince of the Cumbrians.

He also won acclaim for his roles as Brother Benedict in Lamb ( 1986 ), Grandfather George in John Boorman's Hope and Glory ( 1987 ) ( for which he received a second " Best Supporting Actor " BAFTA nomination ), the elder Robert de Brus in Braveheart ( 1995 ), and as the touchingly crafty villager in Waking Ned Devine ( 1998 ).

In 1929, the January 6th Dictatorship was instituted by the King, and Pribićević was interned by the authorities in Brus, Serbia for a period of two years, when finally in 1931 his health problems allowed him to be released and emigrate.

The Lord of Annandale was a sub-comital lordship in southern Scotland ( Annandale ) established by David I of Scotland by 1124 for his follower Robert de Brus.

The Irish annals state that de Brus " took the hostages and lordship of the whole province of Ulster without opposition and they consented to him being proclaimed King of Ireland and all the Gaels of Ireland agreed to grant him lordship and they called him King of Ireland.

* Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale ( died before 1138 ), Norman baron and knight, founded the Bruce dynasty of Britain

De Brus spent Christmas at de Verdon's manor of Loughsewdy, consuming its supplies entirely and before leaving, razing it to the ground.

The first surviving major text in Early Scots literature is John Barbour's Brus ( 1375 ), composed under the patronage of Robert II and telling the story in epic poetry of Robert I's actions before the English invasion till the end of the war of independence.

Humphrey had become lord of Toron sometime before 1140, when he married the daughter of Renier Brus, lord of Banias ( the Herodian city of Caesarea Philippi ).

The departmental capital is Puerto Lempira ; until 1975 it was Brus Laguna.

Arbitration by Edward I of England awarded the throne to Balliol, but when Edward subsequently attempted to conquer Scotland, Robert de Brus ' grandson and namesake took the throne as king and maintained Scottish independence ; Bruce's success led to his acceptance as rightful king and Balliol's reign was disregarded as an usurpation ; this established proximity of blood as a valid principle in the Scottish royal succession, although precedent and legislation also had a role.

* René Brus ; " De juwelen van het Huis Oranje-Nassau, Haarlem 1996.

* Duncan, A. A. M., ‘ Brus, Robert ( V ) de, lord of Annandale ( c. 1220 – 1295 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 16 Nov 2006

The manor of Normanby was held at an early period by the de Brus family, of Skelton Castle ; and subsequently passed to Marmaduke de Thweng.

Robert was the first son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick.

Almost immediately his grandfather, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, resigned his Lordship of Annandale to Robert's father, possibly to avoid having to swear fealty to John as a vassal lord.

1170 ), married firstly in 1183 Robert III de Brus ( died ca.

Even though as many as fourteen claimants put forward their claims to the title, the real contest was between John Balliol and Robert de Brus.

Sir William Parr could claim royal descent through King John of England, King William the Lion of Scotland, the Brus family from which came Robert the Bruce, and more.

* Robert II de Brus ( fl.

By 1375, the king had commissioned John Barbour to write the poem, The Brus, a history intended to bolster the public image of the Stewarts as the genuine heirs of Robert I.

His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus ( The Bruce ), and his reputation from this poem is such that other long works in Scots which survive from the period are sometimes thought to be by him.

The Brus, Barbour's major surviving work, is a long narrative poem written while he was a member of the king's household in the 1370s.

This translation borrows much from The Brus.

Saint Nicholas ' Anglican Church is home to the de Brus cenotaph.

It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, an ancestor of the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.

It became one of the richest monastic foundations in England with grants from the Crown and bequests from de Brus, other nobles and gentry and local people of more modest means.

He passed them to his friend Robert de Brus, Lord of Skelton, one of the largest landowners in the north, owning more than in Yorkshire alone.

Most of the nave and chancel were rebuilt with the support of the de Brus family, whose coat of arms was displayed on the priory buildings.

The Yorkshire line of the de Brus family died out with the death of the childless Peter IV de Brus in 1272.

Many prominent local nobles were buried there, as was the Scottish Robert V de Brus, grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.