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Wolf Vostell
Wolf Vostell 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 w…
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culture · German artist (1932–1998) · sculptor · painter · video artist · illustrator · photographer · television producer · performance artist · installation artist · filmmaker · printmaker · also Wolf Vostell, Vostell
Born 14 October 1932 · Died 3 April 1998 · Q326226
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
TV Guide: Berlinfieber - Wolf Vostell - Full Cast & Crew
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MutualArt.com: Sell Your Wolf Vostell
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2023· 1 entry
TV Guide: Berlinfever – Wolf Vostell - Full Cast & Crew
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2022· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Wolf Vostell: Destruction is Life
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1998· 2 entries
Died 1998-04-03.
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“Original: Ereignisse sind Waffen zur Politisierung der Kunst.”
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Fluxus-Concert Le Cri 31/10/90”.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Berliner Bär (1996).
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1992· 2 entries
The city of Cologne honoured Vostell with a retrospective of his work
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The town of Cologne honoured Vostell with a major retrospective of his work
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1990· 1 entry
Vostell's triptych 9 November 1989 and design drawings for it were exhibited for the first time in the eastern part of Berlin in the gallery at Weidendamm in Friedrichstraße 103
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1989· 1 entry
The Art'otel Berlin Kudamm opened, which Wolf Vostell has as its theme and thus became a permanent exhibition
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Il Giardino Delle Delizie”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Dé‐coll/age Musik”.
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1978· 1 entry
Met Salvador Dalí, with whom he would later create a joint project with a sculpture from each other in their museums
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1974· 2 entries
His first major retrospective took place in the ARC 2 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, an expanded version of which was shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie, in 1974
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Realized the happening Strawberries in Berlin
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1973· 1 entry
Created the installations Auto Fieber und Energie
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1970· 2 entries
Where it remained for nearly four decades
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Created Heuschrecken, an installation with 20 monitors and a video camera
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1969· 1 entry
- in cooperation with the gallery art intermedia of Helmut Rywelski in Cologne - Vostell created his first car-concrete sculpture Ruhender Verkehr (resting traffic)
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1968· 2 entries
In collaboration with the composer Mauricio Kagel and others, he founded Labor e
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Created the silkscreen B-52 - instead of bombs
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1967· 2 entries
Dealt with the Vietnam War in the happening Miss Vietnam
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His Happening Miss Vietnam dealt with the subject of the Vietnam war
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1965· 2 entries
The Happenings Berlin 100 Ereignisse and 1967 Miss Vietnam followed
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Took part in the 24-hour happening at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal
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1964· 1 entry
Vostell initiated the Happening In Ulm, around Ulm and around Ulm - in the same year he had his first exhibition participation in the 13th exhibition of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in Berlin
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1963· 4 entries
Wolf Vostell became a pioneer of video art with the installation 6 TV Dé-coll/age in the collection of the Museo Reina Sofía Madrid and with the video Sun in Your Head
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Showed the installation Das schwarze Zimmer (The Black Room), which is installed in a dark room with black painted walls, in the Galerie Parnass
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The Happening You in New York in 1964 and others in Berlin, Cologne, Wuppertal and Ulm
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Wolf Vostell became a pioneer of Video art and Installation with his work 6-TV-Dé-coll/age shown at the Smolin Gallery in New York, now in the collections of the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid
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1962· 3 entries
Vostell participated in the Fluxus manifestation Fluxus: International Festival of Contemporary Music in Wiesbaden and in 1963 in the Fluxus festival Festum Fluxorum Fluxus in Düsseldorf
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Participated in the FLUXUS Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik event in Wiesbaden together with Nam June Paik, George Maciunas and other artists
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Founded the journal Dé-coll/age - Bulletin of Current Ideas
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1959· 1 entry
Vostell founded the Vostell-archive
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1958· 2 entries
Vostell integrated television sets into his works
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Under the title The black room and is now part of the collection of the art museum Berlinische Galerie in Berlin
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1957· 1 entry
Attended the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts
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1955· 1 entry
Drew a cycle of ink drawings on Peter Schlemihl's miraculous story
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1954· 1 entry
To refer to the process of tearing down posters, and for the use of mobile fragments of reality
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1953· 3 entries
Began an apprenticeship as a lithographer and studied at the Academy of Applied Art in Wuppertal
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Began an apprenticeship as a lithographer and attended the Werkkunstschule at the Bergische Universität with Ernst Oberhoff in Wuppertal
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Initially produced traditionally produced works such as Korea and Korea Massacre (both oil on paper), War Crucifixion II (oil on canvas) as well as the watercolors The Couple, Family, Airplane and War Crucifixion
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-10-14.
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