” “How Pictures Are Explained to a Dead Hare,” Gallery Schmela, Düsseldorf.ġ966 “and here is already the end of Beuys: Per Kirkeby ‘2.15’” “Eurasia 32nd Set, 1963, Gallery Rene Block, Berlin “. underneath us,” Parnass Gallery, Wuppertal “Western Man Project,” Gallery Schmela, Düsseldorf “. Düsseldorf-New York “The Chief,” Berlin Beuys-The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overvalued “Brown Rooms” “Deer Hunt” (in the back room).ġ965 “and in us. (better proportions!) Beuys “Vehicle Art” Beuys “The Art Pill,” Aachen WHY? Felt works and Fat Corners, Copenhagen Friendship with Bob Morris and Yvonne Rainer Mouse tooth happening. Lynen).ġ949 Exhibition three times in a row, Heerdt: “Profile of the Successor,” Union of Artists, Kleve.ġ950 Reading of Finnegan’s Wake, House Wylermeer, Kranenburg “Giocondologie,” House van der Grinten, Kranenburg “Profile of the Successor,” Union of Artists, Kleve.ġ951 “Collection van der Grinten,” Kranenburg.ġ952 Exhibition “Steel and Pig’s Foot” (19th prize) (additionally, a light ballet by Piene), Düsseldorf “Crucifixes,” Wuppertal Museum of Art, Wuppertal Exhibition in honor of the Amsterdam-Rhein-Canal, Amsterdam “Beuys’ Sculpture,” Nijmegen Museum of Art.ġ953 “Collection van der Grinten,” Kranenburg.ġ955 “Profile of the Successor,” Union of Artists, Kleve.ġ960 Beuys recovers from working in the fields.ġ961 Beuys receives a call to become Professor of Sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy Beuys adds two more chapters to Ulysses at James Joyce’s request.ġ963 Fluxus, Art Academy, Düsseldorf Beuys exhibits Warm Fat during a warm July evening while Allan Kaprow lectures, Zwirner Gallery, Cologne Fluxus exhibition, House van der Grinten, Kranenburg “Documenta III,” Kassel.ġ964 Beuys recommends that the Berlin Wall be heightened by 5 cm. “Profile of the Successor,” Union of Artists, Kleve.ġ947 “Profile of the Successor,” Union of Artists, Kleve.Įxhibition for people hard of hearing, Kleve.ġ948 “Profile of the Successor,” Union of Artists, Kleve.Įxhibition in the Pillen house of beds Exhibition “Kullhaus,” Krefeld (with A. The “official” Beuys biography indicates the scope of this extraordinarily prolific artist’s work:Įxhibition to elucidate the difference between loamy sand and sandy loam, Kleve.ġ929 Exhibition at the grave of Genghis Kahn.ġ930 Exhibition of heather and herbs, Donsbrüggen.ġ933 Underground exhibition (digging parallel to the ground), Kleve.ġ940 Exhibition of an arsenal (together with Heinz Sielmann, Hermann Ulrich Asemissen and Eduard Spanger), Posen.ġ942 Exhibition of my friends, Sebastopol.Įxhibition while a JU 87 is intercepted, Sebastopol.ġ943 Interim exhibition (with Fritz Rolf Rothenburg and Heinz Sielmann), Oranienburg. His work gained greater notice when the noted German collector, Karl Ströher, bought (and then exhibited) the three-hundred-work Beuys retrospective organized by Jan Leering at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland. Notorious for not wanting to exhibit his work, until recently the only place to see his sculpture (besides the semi-private Beuys museum in Kranenburg directed by Hans and Franz Josef van der Grinten) was at the Alfred Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, where he has had occasional one-man exhibitions. In 1961, Beuys moved from Kleve to Düsseldorf where he became Professor of Sculpture at the Art Academy.

Born in Kleve in 1921, he first became known in the late 1950s as the leading advocate of Fluxus “action art”-performance pieces whose American counterpart is the early Happenings of Kaprow, Oldenburg, Paik and Whitman.

JOSEPH BEUYS STANDS ALMOST ALONE in post-war German art as a sculptor of major importance.

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