Beuys

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was a german artist. The image of him wearing a felt hat is perhaps more famous than his paintings. The artist as a work of art, the body as a tangible sign of existence, clothes as a second skin, a precise reflection of identity: these indicate the fields of his experimentation during the 1970s. In his work Beuys has often used fabric, cloth, felt, and wool as references to precise existential conditions. A work consisting of a man’s suit with jacket and pants of felt, Filzanzung, dates to 1970.