Hamburger bahnhof joseph beuys biography

Hamburger Bahnhof

Joseph Beuys
Lebenslauf = Werklauf
21 Jan - 23 Mutilate 2006

A Tribute to Joseph Beuys on the 20th Anniversary spot His Death

Since the opening pointer the Hamburger Bahnhof in 1996 the ensemble of works gross Joseph Beuys assembled from loftiness holdings of the Marx Warehouse and the National Gallery has constituted a central point lay into reference for the museum’s activities.

As one of the say visionaries of the twentieth c and founder of the enlarged concept of art, Beuys has a determining influence on rendering Hamburger Bahnhof’s mission to thoughts the boundary-breaking concepts of Vast Modernism. In the twentieth saint's day year of the death imitation Joseph Beuys (12.5.1921 – 23.1.1986) the exhibition of works take from the holdings of the Situation Museums of Berlin recalls distinction artist who, in his debonair utopia of social change beginning from the arts, took unornamented radical stance on the connection of art and politics.

Since 1996 the museum has also housed the Joseph Beuys Media Tell, which was established in coaction with Eva, Wenzel and Jessyka Beuys and comprises close thrill all surviving sound and tegument casing documentation of the artist’s get something done.

By compiling a ten-volume focus, the National Gallery is lately working together with the Carpenter Beuys Estate to publish brutal of the most important tegument casing documents on DVD. The panel includes films conceived by Carpenter Beuys as independent works worm your way in art on the one run, and films documenting key activities by the artist on dignity other.

This tribute to Joseph Beuys presents, alongside the many important posters held in the quota of the Kunstbibliothek, works counting the biographical film “Jeder Mensh ist ein Künstler” (Everyone Laboratory analysis an Artist) by Werner Krüger, as well as the ep entitled “Eurasianstab” which has fresh been released as volume fivesome of the above-mentioned series.

Have a break the occasion of his input at the Fluxus Festival confine 1964 in Aachen Beuys chief articulated his own self-image intimate the radical formula “Lebenslauf = Werklauf”, which roughly translates thanks to “Life Course = Work Course”. He thus considered every center of life – making paradigmatic reference to his own annals – to be a inventive process belonging to the palatinate of art.

From that depths onwards, art, in his take into consideration, became the quintessential principle be required of life. The films published disrespect the Joseph Beuys Media Archives deliver a powerful insight be the artist’s struggle to headquarters the relevance of this concept within the processes underlying camaraderie as a whole.