A series of portraits of Joseph Beuys created by Andy Warhol during the 1980s are currently on view at London’s Thaddaeus Ropac, as part of an exhibition that delves into the relationship between the ...

Joseph Beuys revolutionized art in Europe after the Second World War like hardly any other artist. Known for quirky and provocative installations and performance pieces like a bathtub covered in fat ...

Painter, sculptor, and conceptualist Joseph Beuys is one of the most influential artists of the latter half of the 20th century. Beuys was born in 1921 in Kleve, Germany, making him just the right age ...

In addition to always looking cool in his trademark fedora and fur coats, Joseph Beuys was one of the most influential artists of the mid 20th century. Enigmatic, charming, fervent, obsessive, ...

Joseph Beuys in Beuys (image copyright bpk, Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland and Ute Klophaus, courtesy of Zero One Film and Kino Lorber) Shockingly, despite this ...

Joseph Beuys is a canonical postwar artist, but was he really as progressive and enlightened as we’ve come to believe, and as he led us to think? A new biography of the artist, written by German-born ...

Joseph Beuys' artworks and performances were already celebrated during his lifetime (1921-1986) — but he was also a controversial figure. He used unusual materials in his artworks, such as felt and ...

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 peer into a ...

Joseph Beuys' dramatic accounts of his wartime activities helped catapult him to fame as a leading avant-garde artist. But a recently discovered letter from 1944 chips away at his already battered ...