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Wolf Vostell
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Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 Leverkusen – 3 April 1998 Berlin) was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete.
Known for
- Malpartida Fluxus Village2015
- Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus — Self1989
- Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968 — Himself1981
- Ticket of No Return1979
- Berlin Fever — self1973
- Kunst und Ketchup1966
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1932-10-14 ) 14 October 1932, Leverkusen , Germany
- Died
- 3 April 1998 (1998-04-03) (aged 65), Berlin , Germany
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Known for
- Painting , sculpture , installation art , video art , décollage
- Movement
- Happening , Fluxus
- Spouse
- Mercedes Vostell
- Children
- David Vostell
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Leverkusen
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Occupation
- poster artist
- Educated at
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- video art
- Movement
- Fluxus
- Image
- Wolf Vostell, 1980 in Spain.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wolf Vostell
- date of birth
- 1932-10-14
- date of death
- 1998-04-03
- place of burial
- Civil Cemetery, Madrid
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- has works in the collection
- Wallraf–Richartz Museum
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Works in European collections
5 objects attributed to Wolf Vostell, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Wolf Vostell ( German: [vɔlf ˈfɔstəl]; 14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art, street art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as are paintings inspired by graffiti, embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Wolf Vostell was married to the Spanish writer Mercedes Vostell and had two sons, David Vostell and Rafael Vostell.
Biography
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