Joseph Beuys
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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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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 1986
- Works
- 158
Top works
- Joseph Beuys, Projekt Westmensch
- Studien zu den Prinzipien der Installationen von Joseph Beuys
- Joseph Beuys für die Hausbesetzer
- Prophete rechts, Prophete links--Joseph Beuys
- Joseph Beuys und die Mail Art in der DDR
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Acting · 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
Article
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..