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May 9, 2024 · Joseph Beuys (born May 12, 1921, Krefeld, Germany—died January 23, 1986, Düsseldorf) was a German avant-garde sculptor and performance artist whose works, characterized by unorthodox materials and ritualistic activity, stirred much controversy. Beuys was educated in Rindern, Germany, and served in the German air force throughout World War II.
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4 days ago · Joseph Beuys was a German Fluxus, happening, performance artist, painter, sculptor, medallist and installation artist. In 1962 his actions alongside the Fluxus neodadaist movement started, group in which he ended up becoming the most important member.
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May 6, 2024 · Joseph Beuys’s project 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) began in 1982 at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany. His plan called for the planting of 7,000 trees—each paired with a columnar basalt stone approximately four feet high and positioned above ground—throughout the greater city of Kassel.
4 days ago · Exactly 50 years ago, in 1974, German artist Joseph Beuys traveled to the United States for the first time, lifting an embargo he’d self-imposed during the Vietnam War. He was bundled into an ambulance— No. Hold on. We need to go back a bit first.
May 16, 2024 · Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist. View Joseph Beuys’s 10,670 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, sculpture, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.
May 1, 2024 · Beuys was a renowned German performance artist, teacher, and art theorist who immersed himself in politics throughout his life. He is most renowned for popularizing the Fluxus movement–an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s who foregrounded the experimental artistic process ...
May 4, 2024 · Comprising 15 key works by Joseph Beuys, the new presentation in the Kleihueshalle of the Hamburger Bahnhof explores the artist’s complex oeuvre and critical reception. . Alongside his environment DAS KAPITAL RAUM 1970–1977 (1980), the parcours includes sculptures, drawings, multiples and groundbreaking actions such as I like America and America likes Me (197