# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nils-udo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:58:08.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nils-udo"
name: "Nils-Udo"
slug: "nils-udo"
description: "Nils-Udo is a German artist from Bavaria who has been creating environmental art since the 1960s when he moved away from painting and the studio and began to work with, and in, nature. He began in the 1960s as a painter on traditional surfaces, in Paris, but moved to his home country in Bavaria and started to plant creations, putting them in Nature's hands to develop, and eventually disappear. As his work became more ephemeral, Udo introduced photography as part of his art to document and share it. Perhaps the best known example of his work for the general public is the cover design for Peter Gabriel's OVO. Nils-Udo seeks to offer a mutualist vision wherein nature as environment is an omnipresent backdrop. In revealing the diversity in a specific environment, he establishes links between human and natural history, between nature and humanity that are always there, yet seldom recognized. Nils-Udo uses natural materials, such as sticks, petals, branches, to create site-specific installations."
tagline: "German artist (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_Nils-Udo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1937"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.363537333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Udo"
    title: "Nils-Udo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "نيلس ودو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Udo"
    title: "Nils Udo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Udo"
    title: "Nils-Udo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Udo"
    title: "Nils-Udo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Udo"
    title: "Nils Udo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Udo"
    title: "Nils-Udo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q481033"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump