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'''Nils-Udo''' (born 1937) 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Nils_Udo.html|title=Artist/Naturalist Nils Udo|website=www.morning-earth.org|access-date=2018-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707075535/http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Nils_Udo.html|archive-date=2010-07-07|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 (album)|OVO]].<ref name=Hyper>{{Cite web |url=http://hypergallery.com/ |title=Hypergallery.com profile |access-date=2009-06-22 |archive-date=2009-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527112540/http://www.hypergallery.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag99/sept99/nils/nils.shtml|title=Sculpture.org|website=www.sculpture.org|access-date=2018-11-27|archive-date=2018-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127152011/https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag99/sept99/nils/nils.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> Nils-Udo uses natural materials, such as sticks, petals, branches, to create site-specific installations.<ref name="mymodernmet.com">{{Cite web|date=2018-12-05|title=6 Environmental Artists Who Celebrate Nature and Promote Positive Social Change|url=https://mymodernmet.com/environmental-art/|access-date=2021-10-05|website=My Modern Met|language=en|archive-date=2021-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005134916/https://mymodernmet.com/environmental-art/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Peter Gabriel contacted Nils Udo to create an installation for the cover for his new album '''''OVO'''''. Udo created a nest-like structure supported by tree trunks, which made it very heavy. Inside the nest lay the cchild of a Real World (Studio in England where the album was recorded) employee (The child, Josh, is the son of Susie Millns at Real World’s Art department). The photograph was taken and then the installation was moved into Peter Gabriels's garden nearby. Finally due to issues of what to do with it, the gardener set the structure on fire. This did not upset Udo as his work is transient and there is a photograph that keeps the artwork still living.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://realworldgalleries.com/ovo/|title=Ovo » Real World Galleries|website=realworldgalleries.com|access-date=2018-11-27|archive-date=2018-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127152029/http://realworldgalleries.com/ovo/|url-status=live}}</ref> Its called OVO because it has an OVO form.

=== ''StoneRock-AgeTime-Man'' (2001) ===

'''''StoneRock-AgeTime-Man''''' is a monumental sculpture in Wittgensteiner-Sauerland, Germany. Udo creates the effect of an ancient temple by installing in the middle of the structure an enormous cube of rock framed by a monumental architectural trunk form made out of wood. The quartzite monolith weighs almost 150 tons and, integrated into the peaceful grandeur of the forest, it forms a monument and memorial in its own right: its size, its timeless association with the earth, and its uniqueness. When exposed to this powerful entity, the viewer experiences his/her own temporality and vulnerability. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.waldskulpturenweg.com/sculptures/stone-age-man/|title=Stone-Age-Man Nils Udo Kühude – waldskulpturenweg.de|last=netzpepper|website=www.waldskulpturenweg.com|language=de|access-date=2018-11-27|archive-date=2018-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127152048/http://www.waldskulpturenweg.com/sculptures/stone-age-man/|url-status=live}}</ref>