BEUYS 2021. 100 Years of Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921-January 23,1986)

Every man is the artist. J.B.

Olga Szulc, Beuys!, digital collage, May 2021

Artist

Art Educator

Draftsman

Sculptor

Provocateur

Performer

Activist

Politician

Reader

Theorist

the most influential thinker among artists of the postwar generation

a symbolist, an expressionist, a mystical romanticist

the most prophetic voice

the Picasso of the avant-garde

showman as well as shaman

Let Beuys himself tell us about his oeuvre:

Joseph Beuys interviewed by William Furlong and Michael Newman at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.

To follow up:

Joseph Beuys in America: Energy plan for the Western Man (writings by and interviews with the artist, with introductory essays by Kim Levin and Caroline Tisdall, compiled by Carin Kuoni);

Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1990

Joseph Beuys by Heiner Stachelhaus, translated by David Britt;

Abbeville Press Publishers New York London Paris, 1991

Joseph Beuys The Reader, edited and translated by Claudia Mesch and Viola Michely;

The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007

*in this collage: J.B.,Stag, ferric chloride, pencil on paper, 1957; still image from the video:

I Like America and America Likes Me. Produced by René Block Gallery, New York, 1974