BEUYS, Joseph

About the German artist, Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)

"Joseph Heinrich BEUYS was a German action artist, sculptor, medalist, draftsman, art theorist and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, who would have turned 100 on May 12, 2021. In his extensive work he dealt with questions of humanism, social philosophy and Anthroposophy. This led to his specific definition of an 'expanded concept of art' and to the conception of social sculpture as a total work of art by calling for creative participation in society and politics at the end of the 1970s 20th century and, according to the biographer Reinhard Ermen, is to be seen as an 'ideal typical opponent' to Andy WARHOL. Joseph BEUYS recognized the need for ecological rethinking early on: in 1979 he ran for the European Parliament as a direct candidate for 'The Greens'; the city of Bolognano made him an honorary citizen in 1984 after winning the first 400 of 7000 B trees and bushes for the establishment of a nature reserve in the municipality." (Source: wikipedia)

Books about Joseph BEUYS (a selection)

'Über Beuys' (1972, von Romain Wedever); 'Coyote' (1976, 1988, 2008, 2021, photographs by Caroline TISDALL); 'Werkübersicht. 1945-1985' (1996, 2021); 'Beuys in Amerika' (1997, 2021); 'Transsibirische Bahn' (2004);  'Posters' (2004, 2021); 'Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. Drakeplatz 4' (2015); 'Titus/Iphigenie' (2018, photographs by Abisag TÜLLMANN); 'beuys 2021' (2021); 'Everyone is an artist' (2021); 'Laughing' (2021); 'Kunst Kapital Revolution' (2021)