German Plasticien artist, Wolf Vostell is born in Leverkusen in 1932. He is not yet 20 years old when he begins his first works. In 1953, he begins training in lithography, and then studies typography at the School of Arts and Crafts (Ecole des Arts et Metiers) in Wuppertal. Deeply impressed by his trip to Paris in 1954, Vostell creates his first "dé-collage," a term that makes the headlines in Le Figaro. In 1955-56, the young man follows the course of...

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  Biography of Wolf Vostell

  German Plasticien artist, Wolf Vostell is born in Leverkusen in 1932. He is not yet 20 years old when he begins his first works. In 1953, he begins training in lithography, and then studies typography at the School of Arts and Crafts (Ecole des Arts et Metiers) in Wuppertal. Deeply impressed by his trip to Paris in 1954, Vostell creates his first "dé-collage," a term that makes the headlines in Le Figaro. In 1955-56, the young man follows the course of painting and drawing at the National Superior School of Fine Arts in Paris (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris), then in 1957, those of the Dusseldorf Art Academy. In 1958, Vostell participates in the first European Happening in Paris (The theater is on the street I), and produces his first objects with TV and cars’ components. He moves to Cologne in 1959. Wolf Vostell is the first artist who from the late '50s, refers to the history of the Third Reich (Auschwitz, Treblinka) in his facilities. The artist enters the Fluxus movement, which he is co-founder in the early 60s. In 1961, he directs "Cityrama I", first environmental happenings taking place in twenty-six locations in Cologne. Wolf Vostell subsequently organizes several large-scale happenings (Wuppertal, Aix-la-Chapelle, Ulm, etc.). In 1969, his work revolves around concrete (embedding in concrete). In 1971, Vostell moves to Berlin and, five years later, he founds a museum dedicated to his work and Fluxus in Malpartida of Cáceres (Spain). Wolf Vostell dies in Berlin in 1998.
   
  
  

  

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