Joseph Beuys

May 12, 1921 (Krefeld, Germany) – January 23, 1986 (Duesseldorf, Germany).

 Beuys was a Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. Here, Beuys was interpreted in his performance. 

Works: Woman/Animal Skull, Fat Chair, How To Explain Pictures To A Dead Hare.

Periods: Fluxus, Conceptual art, Modern art, Ecovention.