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Joseph Heinrich Beuys (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, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International ...
Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( 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, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International ...
Mar 7, 2024 · Joseph Beuys was an influential German artist and a prominent member of the Fluxus movement. He expanded the scope of art to include social activism and political engagement. Beuys’ theory of “social sculpture” left a lasting legacy on the contemporary art world. Early Life and Education.
Feb 21, 1993 · The first American retrospective of the drawings of Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), the central figure in postwar German art, Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys reveals how Beuys’s identity not only as an artist, but as a teacher, performer, political activist, and social reformer, can be traced through his drawings.
Jan 28, 2014 · Yet for the German sculptor, painter, draughtsman, teacher, theorist and political activist, Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986), his artistic ambition was almost indivisible from a more concrete ambition to remake society for the better.
Imitatio Christi. In his work Feet Washing (1971), Beuys is performing an action which reminds us of a famous story from the Gospel. It is the story when Christ washed the feet of his disciples showing his humility and demonstrating the principle “let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.”
