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Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986) was active/lived in Germany.  Joseph Beuys is known for Sculpture, installation and performance art, drawing.

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Joseph Beuys was born on May 12, 1921 in the little town of Cleves in  the Northwestern corner of Germany, near the Dutch border.  (Beuys is a Dutch name; it rhymes with "voice").  He grew up in the troubled years of post World War I Germany.  He worked on farms as a boy, as an adolescent he joined a traveling circus.  At nineteen, he was conscripted into the Luftwaffe and was injured several times.  In 1945 he turned to sculpture and painting. 

His drawings and paintings were exploratory studies of natural forms.  In 1947 he enrolled at Dusseldorf Academy of Art.  From 1951 to 1954 he worked at sculpture and drawings at his own studio in Dusseldorf.  On September 19, 1959 he married Eva Wurmbach, an art teacher; they have a daughter, Jessyka. They also had a son.   

In 1961 he was appointed Professor of sculpture at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art.  Although he has often been ranked "somewhere between   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1960 characters.]  Artist bio

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