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| Checklist of Works |
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stacks and oil can
a series of 100 panels containing photographs
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Joseph Beuys. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1979. Text by Caroline Tisdall.
Joseph Beuys. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1987.
Joseph Beuys: Life and Works. Ed. Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz, Karin Thomas. New York: Barron's, 1979.
Joseph Beuys: Natur, Materie, Form. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, 1991. Text by Armin Zweite.
Joseph Beuys: Retrospektiv. Ed. Heiner Bastien. Berlin: Martin Gropius Bau, 1988.
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| Biography |
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Joseph Beuys was born in Kleve, Germany, on May 21, 1921, where he grew up. Trained at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he taught there as a professor of sculpture from 1961 until his controversial dismissal in 1972. In 1953 the van der Grinten's collection of Beuys's sculpture and drawing was first exhibited. In the early sixties, he became involved with Fluxus, taking part in a number of concerts, as well as devising his own "actions," which for a time became his principal aesthetic mode. In 1970 a large collection of his work formed under the artist's own aegis, the Ströher Collection, was installed in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, which remains the most important public collection of his work. Joseph Beuys died in Düsseldorf on January 21, 1986.
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| Funding |
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Major funding for this project has been received from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, Washington, D. C., with additional funding from the Dia Art Council, the major annual support group of the Dia Center for the Arts. Support for the 1991-92 exhibitions program has also been provided through a generous grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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