Joseph Beuys
German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921–1986)
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German artist who turned performance into philosophy, wielding felt and fat as political statements. Beuys made Fluxus visceral, founded institutions for radical creativity, and convinced people that everyone's an artist—whether they believed him or not.
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Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, 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 W…
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