Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys, born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1921, was a pioneering conceptual artist and sculptor. His career was marked by a deep belief in the transformative power of art.

Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist. Known for his highly original and controversial themes, his practice of “social sculpture” attempted to make art more democratic by ...

This is the second article in a three-part series looking at more "conceptual" forms of art. The first article looked at how citizenship can be shaped, ...

Postwar German artist Joseph Beuys cemented his reputation for provocative performance art with a 1965 gallery action called “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare,” in which people could ...

Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist. Known for his highly original and controversial themes, his practice of “social sculpture” attempted to make art more democratic by ...

Beuys is one of Germany's most famous artists of the postwar period, but his stance on National Socialism remains a divisive matter that still needs critical examination.Joseph Beuys' artworks and ...

A new show of Joseph Beuys's seminal work gives new insight on what it means to be a political artist in a "post-truth" era.

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is famed for a broad spectrum of activity that ranged from the deeply abstract, such as sculpting with fat and felt, to ‘aktion’ (actions) that had direct social and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How has the art of Joseph Beuys — activist, mystic, romantic, sculptor of fat and felt — endured ...

The Joseph Beuys Research Center (China) holds its inaugural exhibition Joseph Beuys: 7000 Dreams at Ennova Art Museum in Langfang, Hebei province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The center ...