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Joseph Beuys
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German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921–1986)
Joseph Beuys was a German artist, teacher, and theorist who lived from 1921 to 1986 and became known for expanding what art could be and do. His work and ideas about art's role in society influenced how artists and the public have thought about creativity and artistic practice in the modern world.
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Krefeld, Germany
Joseph Beuys was a German artist, theorist and teacher who was highly influential in international contemporary art in the latter half of the 20th century. He is a founder of the art movement known as Fluxus, and a practitioner and exemplar of happenings, and performance art.
Known for
- Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV — Self (archive footage)2023
- Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World — Self - Artist (archive footage)2022
- Beuys — Himself (archive footage)2017
- Re: Maciunas and Fluxus2011
- Joseph Beuys - Coyote III — Himself2008
- Arrows of Time2007
- Sistine Chapel — Self / Performer1993
- Frames for Seconds1991
- Joseph Beuys: Transformer1988
- All Star Video — Self (archive footage)1985
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Krefeld
- Place of death
- Düsseldorf
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Employer
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Languages spoken
- German
- Notable work
- How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
- Participant in
- Documenta IX
- Student of
- Ewald Mataré
- Field of work
- performance art
- Genre
- conceptual art
- Movement
- Fluxus
- Image
- Beuys-Feldman-Gallery.jpg
- Work location
- Italy
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- Commons category
- Joseph Beuys
- date of birth
- 1921-05-12
- date of death
- 1986-01-23
- topic's main category
- Category:Joseph Beuys
- Commons gallery
- Joseph Beuys
- Commons Creator page
- Joseph Beuys
- place of burial
- North Sea
- student
- Anatol Herzfeld
- name in native language
- Joseph Beuys
- cause of death
- heart failure
- pseudonym
- Boĭs, Iosef
- start of work period
- 1960-01-01
- end of work period
- 1985-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (13)
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Joseph Beuys, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Heinrich Beuys (/bɔɪs/ BOYSS; German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen [de; fr], Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, Beuys created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU). Through his talks and performances, he also formed The Party for Animals and The Organisation for Direct Democracy. He was a member of a Dadaist art movement Fluxus and singularly inspirational in developing of Performance Art, called Kunst Aktionen, alongside Wiener Aktionismus that Allan Kaprow and Carolee Schneemann termed Art Happenings.
According to one of his biographers, Reinhard Ermen, he can be seen as the “ideal antagonist” of Andy Warhol..
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