Wolf Vostell
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1932-10-14
- Died
- 1998-04-03
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Vostell
- Beuys, Brock, Vostell
- Fantastic Architecture
- Aktionen
- Happening & Leben
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Film & TV
Directing
Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 Leverkusen – 3 April 1998 Berlin) was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete.
Known for
- Malpartida Fluxus Village2015
- Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus — Self1989
- Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968 — Himself1981
- Ticket of No Return1979
- Berlin Fever — self1973
- Kunst und Ketchup1966
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- Listeners
- 2,422
- Total plays
- 11,355
Tags
experimentalelectro-acousticelectroacousticcontemporary classicalmodern classical
After an apprenticeship as photolithographer Wolf Vostell studied at the Wuppertal "Werkkunstschule" from 1954 to 1955. He traveled extensively and in 1954 Paris developed the concept of "décollage" made from torn billboards, which subsequently also determined his later oeuvre. After further studies at the Paris "École des Beaux-Arts" and a disappointing return to the Düsseldorf academy, the artist decided in 1958 that art must take place in the street and integrated the audience in his first ha
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
- Development and testing of a general amber force field
· 2004 · cited 17,776x
- Spintronics: A Spin-Based Electronics Vision for the Future
· 2001 · cited 10,630x
- SCANPY: large-scale single-cell gene expression data analysis
· 2018 · cited 8,262x
- Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution
· 2006 · cited 7,987x
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Quotes
- “Art is Life, Life is Art.”
- “Events are weapons for politicization of art.”
- “I declare peace the greatest work of art.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1932-10-14 ) 14 October 1932, Leverkusen , Germany
- Died
- 3 April 1998 (1998-04-03) (aged 65), Berlin , Germany
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Known for
- Painting , sculpture , installation art , video art , décollage
- Movement
- Happening , Fluxus
- Spouse
- Mercedes Vostell
- Children
- David Vostell
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Key dates
- Born
- 14 October 1932
- Died
- 3 April 1998
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Leverkusen
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Occupation
- poster artist
- Educated at
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- video art
Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Wolf Vostell, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Wolf Vostell ( German: [vɔlf ˈfɔstəl]; 14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art, street art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as are paintings inspired by graffiti, embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Wolf Vostell was married to the Spanish writer Mercedes Vostell and had two sons, David Vostell and Rafael Vostell.
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