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ID: 500024607
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024607
 
Record Type: Person
Beuys, Joseph (German sculptor, performance artist, printmaker, 1921-1986)

Note: German sculptor, performance artist, draftsman, printmaker, teacher, and political activist. He sought an expanded concept of work that broke down the barriers between art and life. His concept of 'social sculpture' was very influential.

Names:
Beuys, Joseph (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Beuys, Joseph (Dutch-P,NA)
Joseph Beuys (V,display,LC)
Beuys, J. (U)
Boĭs, Iosef (U)
Bojs, Jozef (U)
בויס, ג'וזף (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Beuys, Josef (U)
Beuys, Joseph Heinrich (U)

Nationalities:
German (preferred)
West German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
printmaker
performance artist
teacher
draftsman
painter
poet
lecturer
graphic artist
art theorist
environmental artist
watercolorist
photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Krefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  Dusseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
associated with ....  Szeemann, Harald  
............................  (Swiss curator, 1933-2005) [500196090]
collaborated with ....  Anatol  
................................  (German sculptor, 1931-2019) [500101384]
collaborated with ....  Davis, Douglas  
................................  (American video artist and critic, 1933-2014) [500116219]
colleague of ....  Spoerri, Daniel  
......................  (Swiss sculptor, performance artist, and writer, 1930-2024, born in Romania) [500031201]
influenced ....  Knoebel, Imi  
....................  (German painter, sculptor, and installation artist, born 1940) [500124422]
member of ....  Fluxus  
................  (International group of artists, active 1960s-late 1970s) [500125040]
student of ....  Enseling, Joseph  
..................  (German sculptor, 1886-1957) [500596757]
student of ....  Matare, Ewald  1947-1951
..................  (German sculptor, painter, and ceramicist, 1887-1965) [500020091]
teacher of ....  Angermann, Peter  
..................  (German painter, born 1945) [500047256]
teacher of ....  Baumgarten, Lothar  
..................  (German conceptual artist, 1944-2018) [500088417]
teacher of ....  Becking, Horst  
..................  (German printmaker, born 1937) [500096360]
teacher of ....  Beck, Klaus  
..................  (German graphic artist, born 1928) [500386521]
teacher of ....  Bohmler, Claus  
..................  (German video artist, object artist, and filmmaker, 1939-2017) [500384490]
teacher of ....  Bühl, Hede  
..................  (German sculptor, born 1940) [500106200]
teacher of ....  Dahn, Walter  1971-1977
..................  (German painter and sculptor, born 1954) [500045746]
teacher of ....  Dannhäuser, Artur  
..................  (German painter, 1940-) [500687442]
teacher of ....  Droese, Felix  
..................  (German sculptor and collagist, born 1950) [500045755]
teacher of ....  Droese, Irmel  
..................  (German painter and sculptor, born 1943) [500377343]
teacher of ....  Dümling, Brigitte  
..................  (German painter, born 1950) [500373246]
teacher of ....  Geuer, Johannes  
..................  (German video artist and draftsman, born 1949) [500125965]
teacher of ....  Giese, Imi  
..................  (German painter, 1942-1974) [500356871]
teacher of ....  Hafner, Jonas  
..................  (German painter and sculptor, born 1940) [500112745]
teacher of ....  Huber, Thomas  
..................  (Swiss painter and installation artist, born 1955) [500022957]
teacher of ....  Igadim  
..................  (German installation artist, born 1942) [500380688]
teacher of ....  Immendorff, Jörg  
..................  (German painter, 1945-2007) [500047382]
teacher of ....  Kiefer, Anselm  
..................  (German painter, born 1945) [500047395]
teacher of ....  Kohlhöfer, Christof  
..................  (German painter and filmmaker, born 1942) [500125968]
teacher of ....  Krempelsauer, Joseph  
..................  (Dutch sculptor, 1951-) [500711561]
teacher of ....  Kunc, Milan  
..................  (Czech painter, born 1944) [500050632]
teacher of ....  Lohaus, Bernd  
..................  (Belgian sculptor, 1940-2010) [500093788]
teacher of ....  Mahn, Inge  
..................  (German sculptor, born 1943) [500383231]
teacher of ....  Meuser  
..................  (Germany sculptor, born 1947) [500194814]
teacher of ....  Mühleisen, Wencke  
..................  (Norwegian scholar, writer, performance artist, born 1953) [500623775]
teacher of ....  Palermo, Blinky  
..................  (German painter and printmaker, 1943-1977) [500047415]
teacher of ....  Polke, Sigmar  
..................  (German painter, 1941-2010) [500115233]
teacher of ....  Puls, Erwin  
..................  (Austrian painter, born 1940) [500512210]
teacher of ....  Riska, Ilia de  
..................  (German scenographer, contemporary) [500624815]
teacher of ....  Rosenbach, Ulrike  
..................  (German video artist, born 1943) [500071365]
teacher of ....  Ruthenbeck, Reiner  
..................  (German sculptor and photographer, 1937-2016) [500047418]
teacher of ....  Sieverding, Katharina  
..................  (Czech photographer and filmmaker, born 1944, active in Germany) [500125971]
worked with ....  Ammann, Jean-Christophe  
....................  (Swiss curator, museum director, and critic, 1939-2015) [500222036]
worked with ....  Labowitz, Leslie  
....................  (American performance artist, born 1946) [500085128]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Beuys, Joseph (I)

Biographies:
(German sculptor, performance artist, printmaker, 1921-1986) ..... [VP Preferred]
(West German artist, 1921-1986) ..... [BHA]
(German artist, 1921-) ..... [WCP]
(German artist, 1921-1986) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(German sculptor, 1921-1986) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(German artist, 1921-1986) ..... [AVERY]
(German sculptor, 1921-1986) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(German artist, 1921-1986) ..... [MoMA]
(German painter, 1921-1986) ..... [IMJ]
(German artist, 1921-1986) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(German sculptor, 1921-1986) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
בויס, ג'וזף ........ [IMJ]
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Beuys, J. ........ [GRL]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79102794
Beuys, Josef ........ [RKD]
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 7928
Beuys, Joseph ........ [AVERY Preferred, Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 338
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
............................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79102794
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 7928
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Beuys, Joseph Heinrich ........ [RKD]
.............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 7928
Boĭs, Iosef ........ [GRL]
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79102794
Bojs, Jozef ........ [GRL]
........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79102794
Joseph Beuys ........ [GRISC Preferred, GRL, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M27; 890164; 940004
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Belvedere, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 338
....................  Babington Smith Dictionary of Contemporary artists (1981)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79102794
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 8 January 2003
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1983
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79102794
....................  MoMA, Library Catalog (1976)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Artists (1989)
....................  Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art (1981)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 7928
....................  Time (3 February 1986)
....................  Who's Who in the Arts: Germany, Austria & Switzerland (1978)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q153965
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2008-)
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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