Joseph Beuys quotes - the artist on modern art & life in Germany; free resource, German art history

Joseph Beuys in quotes - the famous artist on the role of modern Art in Society & his artistic life in Germany - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in German art history

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Joseph (Josef) Beuys’ selected artist quotes here describe his ideas and concepts of ‘modern art’ in the 1960’s of Germany. Beuys developed a radical art-concept of ‘Social Sculpture’, as he explained clearly in his writings and talks. Moreover he commented his famous performance act with a coyote (see right image), in ‘I like America…’ and the many famous art ‘Objects’ he made, like his art-works ‘Fat Chair’ and ‘Fat Corners’. It was the ‘Fat’ that was one of his favorite mediums to create art.

Beuys’s artist quotes are an essential part of modern art development between 1950 - 1975 in Germany and later the U.S., because he was strongly focused on the relation Art & Society. He felt himself connected with the famous American Pop Art artist Andy Warhol;, they made art-trips together in Italy and talked a lot about art.
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Some selected artist quotes of famous German artist Joseph Beuys - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. The rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible… .Objects aren’t very important any more. I want to get to… …the thought behind it.’ - quote of Beuys in ‘An interview with Joseph Beuys,’, Willoughby Sharp, in ‘Artforum,’ Nov. 1969

• ’This most modern art discipline ‘Social Sculpture / Social Architecture’ (Beuys’ new art-concept)- will only reach fruition when every living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or architect of the social organism… .I think art is the only political power… …the only power to free humankind form all repression…’ - quote from Beuys’ text: ‘I Am Searching For Field Character,’ 1973/74

• ’My objects (sculptures) are to be seen as stimulants… .They should provoke thoughts about what sculpture can be and how the concept of sculpting can be extended to the invisible materials used by everyone.’ - Beuys’s quote, from '‘heory of Social Sculpture’, 1979
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  selection of free art-resources on famous German artist Joseph Beuys:

  • extended biographical notes of Beuys, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Joseph Beuys, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys
  • images of objects and other art, made by Beuys - on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Beuys
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]