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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>