Joseph Beuys

Person · Open Library

Born

1921

Died

1986

Works

158

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Film & TV

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
• Arrows of Time2007
• Sistine Chapel — Self / Performer1993
• Frames for Seconds1991
• Joseph Beuys: Transformer1988
• All Star Video — Self (archive footage)1985

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1921

Active to

1986

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,453

Total plays

13,773

Joseph Beuys was born in 1921 in Krefeld, a city in northwestern Germany near the Dutch border. He grew up in the nearby towns of Kleve and Rindern, the only child in a middle class, strongly Catholic family. During his youth he pursued dual interests in the natural sciences and art, and he chose a career in medicine. In 1940 he joined the military, volunteering in order to avoid the draft. He was trained as an aircraft radio operator and combat pilot, and during his years of active duty he was

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 40,244x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

3. Naturalistic inquiry

   · 1985 · cited 34,765x

4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

   · 2019 · cited 21,483x

5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

   · 1985 · cited 19,721x

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Quotes

• “To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. The rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible. But after a while this has only the function of a historic document. Objects aren't very important any more. I want to get to the origin of matter, to the thought behind it.”
• “Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms.”
• “Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.”
• “my art cannot be understood primarily by thinking. My art touches people who are in tune with my mode of thinking. But it is clear that people cannot understand my art by intellectual processes alone, because no art can be experienced in that way.”
• “'Fat' traverses the path from a chaotically dispersed, undirected energy form to a form. Then it appears in the famous fat corner.. ..now [a wedge of fat in the angle between seat and back of the wooden old Chair, Beuys used in the fat-sculpture, like 'Stuhl mit Fett' (Fet Chair), 1964] intersects the human body in the region that houses certain emotional forces [Beuys laughed, and so did everyone else of the public].”
• “For instance the idea of intuition, imagination, inspiration.. ..is related in the principle to an invisible world.. ..when I call these drawings 'The Secret Block' then I try to stress this part of reality as the most important part because spiritual existence is firstly.. .I find if we are only confronted with this hard part of the world, this already done part of the world, we are not.. ..related to the whole idea of reality.. ..the mission of the art is to make visible the whole reality..”

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