Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was a German artist who produced work in a number of forms including sculpture, performance art, video art and installations. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential European artists of the second half of the 20th century. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, and a major figure in the pop art movement. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... Ancient Greeks depiction of ideal form of the body is expressed through sculpture such as this one. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... As opposed to television and theatrical cinema, video art is a subset of artistic works which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. ... Installation can be used to refer to Installation (computer programs) of an operating system or program. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Beuys was born in Krefeld but grew up mainly in two nearby towns, Kleve and Rindern. He had some contact with art, visiting the studio of Achilles Moortgat on a number of occasions, but decided to pursue a career in medicine. However, with the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Luftwaffe, where he became a Stuka rear gunner. Krefeld is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Cleves Cleves (in German Kleve, sometimes used in English as well; Dutch: Kleef) is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, near the Dutch border and the river Rhine, at 51° 47 North 6° 11 East. ... Great Museums in the World (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso …) CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum Very large website with good reproduction quality scans of thousands of paintings Goetia Fine Art - Surrealism Art History With biographies and Works of the Surrealist Masters Art-Atlas. ... Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Luftwaffe (literally, air weapon, pronounced looft-vaaf-feh) is the air force of Germany. ... Junkers Ju 87 Dive-Bombers The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka was the most famous Sturzkampfflugzeug (German dive bomber) in World War II, instantly recognisable by its inverted gull-wings and fixed undercarriage. ...

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It is often said that the predominance of felt and fat as materials in Beuys' work can be traced back to the war. Beuys was shot down while flying a mission over the Crimea and was subsequently rescued by Tatars. The story goes that they kept him warm by covering him with fat and wrapping him in felt. It is not clear whether this last part of the story is actually true, but it has been often repeated, not least by Beuys himself, and has become part of the myth that surrounds Beuys. Download high resolution version (480x640, 15 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 15 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Felt was also the name of a 1980s UK Indie band. ... In biochemistry, fat is a generic term for a class of lipids. ... The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... Tatars or Tartars is a collective name applied to the Turkic-speaking people of Europe and Asia. ...

Following the war, Beuys concentrated on art, and studied at the academy in Düsseldorf from 1946 to 1951. For most of the 1950s he concentrated mainly on drawing. In 1961 he became professor of sculpture there, but was dismissed from his post in 1972 after he insisted that his classes must be open to anybody who wanted to take them. His students protested, and he was allowed to keep his studio there, but still lost his job. Düsseldorf in Germany The Düsseldorf Coat of Arms Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Drawing is one of many ways to making an image; it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ...

In 1962, Beuys became acquainted with the Fluxus movement, and the multi-disciplinary performances and works of that group, which drew together art, music and literature, seems to have pushed his work in a new, more performance art-led direction. Beuys became associated with the group, eventually becoming its most significant and famous member. As part he moved from drawing toward performance art motivated by his belief that art has a larger role to play in society. Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary All Music Guide: includes a comprehensive and flexible Genre and Style system MusicWiki: A Collaborative Music-related encyclopedia Science of Music: Multimedia exploration of the... Wikisource Every Author - Online books and writers forums A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology (José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain) Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning T... Drawing is one of many ways to making an image; it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ...

Among Beuys' better known works are Felt Suit (1970), a felt suit exhibited on a coat hanger; the performance piece Coyote, "I Love America and America Loves Me", for which Beuys wrapped himself in felt and stayed in a room with a coyote for five days; and the sculpture Fat Corner, which is fat piled into the corner of a space, left to melt and turn rancid over a number of days. Binomial name Canis latrans Say, 1823 The coyote (Canis latrans) is a member of the Canidae (the dog family) and a relative of the domestic dog. ...

Perhaps Beuys' most famous performance work is How To Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965), in which he walked around a gallery with his face smeared with honey and covered in gold leaf, carrying a dead hare to whom he talked, explaining the pictures before them. The audience for this performance was kept outside, only able to see the goings on from behind a clear screen. Beuys said the work was concerned with issues such as human and animal consciousness, and the problems of thought and language. Honey honey comb A capped frame of honeycomb Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2. ... Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. ...

Beuys was a keen environmentalist, and was also involved in politics. He founded a number of political organisations, including the German Student Party in 1967, and the Organization for Direct Democracy in 1970. In 1979 he became a founding member of the German Green Party. In 1982 he began a project 7000 oaks in which 7000 oak trees would be planted in Kassel, Germany in the hope that the idea would spread to more cities. Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ... Direct democracy comprises a form of democracy and theory of civics wherein all citizens can directly participate in the political decision-making process. ... Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... Map of Germany showing Kassel Watershed of the river Weser Kassel [ˈkasl̩] (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city in central Germany. ...

In 1979, a large retrospective of Beuys' work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City cemented his reputation as one of the most important artists of his time. He died in 1986 in Düsseldorf. The front of the Guggenheim Museum from 5th Avenue This article refers to the Guggenheim Museum in the upper east side of Manhattan (New York). ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ...

External links

• actual exhibitions with Joseph Beuys on Artfacts.Net (http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/516)
• Details of the 7000 oaks project (http://www.diacenter.org/ltproj/7000/)
• Joseph Beuys Music on Ubuweb (http://www.ubu.com/sound/beuys.html)