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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Max August Zorn, Ralf Hutter, Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, Rudi Dornbusch, Joseph Beuys, Werner Voss, Karl Emil Schafer, Martin Hyun, Andrea Berg, Karl Kaufmann, Barbara Rittner, Katharina Gierok, Eduard Vogel, Hans Neuenfels, Ben Neumann, Hans Junkermann, Kirsten Heisig, Juliane Schenk, Herman op den Graeff, Caroline Casaretto, Marcus Siepen, Kurt Mahler, Peter Longerich, Albert Oehlen, Brigitte Holzapfel, Benjamin Kleibrink, Ernst Schneppenhorst, Olaf Janssen, Hermann von Beckerath, Ulrich Peltzer, Karl Borsch, Dennis Leyckes, Felix Kracht, Leopold Lowenheim, Ulli Jansen, Markus Oehlen, Jochen Neerpasch, Boris Ackers, Emil von Bruck, Heinrich Campendonk, Christoph Nuehlen, Heinz Bongartz, Kurt Feltz, Elke Schmitter, Heinrich Band. Excerpt: Joseph Beuys (German pronunciation: May 12, 1921 - January 23, 1986) was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate, but he is now regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Joseph Beuys was born in Krefeld, the son of the merchant Josef Jakob Beuys (1888-1958) and Johanna Maria Margarete Beuys (born Hulsermann, 1889-1974). The parents had moved from Geldern to Krefeld in 1910, and Beuys was born there on May 12, 1921. In autumn of that year the family moved to Kleve, an industrial town in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, close to the Dutch border. There, Joseph attended primary school (Katholische Volksschule) and secondary/high- school (St..
