Joseph Beuys

1921, Krefeld – 1986, Dusseldorf

Curriculum vitae

Biography

Joseph Beuys is born in Krefeld on May 12th

Military service as an assault fighter pilot

Studies in sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, first with Joseph Enseling and then with Ewald Mataré, whose master student he becomes

First solo exhibition at the van der Grinten house in Kranenburg

Professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy

Participation in Documenta 3 + 4

Founding of the "German Student Party,"

First major solo exhibition "Parallelprozess 1" at Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, Germany

Participation in Documenta 5 with the office of the "Organization for Direct Democracy through Referendum," which he had founded the year before

Dismissal as professor

First trip to the USA with lectures at universities in New York, Chicago and Minneapolis

Participation in the Venice Biennale with the environment "Straßenbahnhaltestelle"

Lichtwark Prize of the City of Hamburg

Participation in Documenta 6 in Kassel with the installation "Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz"

Thorn-Prikker prize from the city of Krefeld

Manifesto "Call for an Alternative" appears in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper

Kaiserring of the city of Goslar

Co-founder of the Green Party

Candidacy for the European elections (1979) + top candidate for the Bundestag elections (1980)

Major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York

Participation in Documenta 7 with the action "Stadt-Verwaldung anstelle von Stadt-Verwaltung. 7000 Eichen"

Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize of the city of Duisburg

Joseph Beuys dies on January 23 in Düsseldorf