Wolf Vostell

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Born October 14, 1932(1932-10-14)
Leverkusen, Prussia, German Reich (now Germany)
Died April 3, 1998(1998-04-03) (aged 65)
Berlin, Germany
Collections Walker 37, Macba 26, Mumok 22, MoMA 19, Reina Sofia 10, Pompidou 8, NRW 7, Stedelijk 6, ZKM 5, NGA Canberra 5, Ludwig 4, Whitney 1, Artic 1

Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) was a German painter and sculptor, an early video and installation artist, and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus.

Releases[edit]

  • Dé​-​coll​/​age Musik, 1972; Soave, 2017. Audio recording.
  • Il giardino delle delizie, Multhipla Records, 1984. A musical Fluxus performance by Wolf Vostell, sopranos Esperanza Abad, Nancy Bellow, Marie-Louise Gilles, Helga Hamm-Albrecht, Else Nabu, cante jondo singer Paco Corales, and the Capella St. Martini, Bremen-Lesum under the direction of Günter Koller. [1]

Publications[edit]

  • editor, Dé-Coll/age: Bulletin aktueller Ideen, 7 numbers, Frankfurt: Typos, 1962-69. [2] [3] (German)
  • Berlin and Phenomena, trans. Laura P. Williams, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1966, 16 pp; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
  • Miss Vietnam, San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969, 37 pp.
  • editor, with Dick Higgins, Fantastic Architecture, New York: Something Else Press, 1971.

Literature[edit]

  • John G. Hanhardt, "Dé-collage and Television: Wolf Vostell in New York, 1963-1964", Visible Language 26:1-2, Winter/Spring 1992, pp 109-123.
  • Caroline Lillian Schopp, "Concrete Violence–Wolf Vostell’s Disasters of War", Oxford Art Journal 44:2, 2021, pp 307-330. [5]
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