Joseph Beuys
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Joseph Beuys (; May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was a German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s.
He is most famous for his ritual public performances and his energetic championing of the healing potential of art and the power of a universal human creativity. As well as performances, Beuys produced sculpture, environments, vitrine, 450 prints and posters, and thousands of drawing. He was also a committed teacher and increasingly devoted much of his energy to German politics. A charismatic and controversial figure, the nature and value of Beuys’s contribution to Western art has elicited a hotly contested and often polarised debate.
Although he took great pride in being native to Kleve, Joseph Beuys was born in Krefeld in 1921; Beuys was the son of the trader Josef Jakob Beuys and Johanna Maria Margarete Beuys.
The Beuys family soon moved to Kleve, an industrial town in the Lower Rhine region of Germany close to the Dutch border, and it was in this region that Beuys spent...
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