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Wolf Vostell

Early Days: Wolf Vostell put his artistic ideas into practice from 1950 onwards. In 1953 he began an apprenticeship as a lithographer and studied at the Academy of Applied Art in Wuppertal. Vostell created his first de-coll/age in 1954. In 1955/56 he studied at the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris and in 1957 he attended the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts.

Career:

In 1958 he took part in the first European Happening in Paris and he produced his first objects with television sets and car parts. He was impressed by the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, which he encountered in 1964 in the electronic studios of the German radio station WDR, and in 1959 he created his electronic TV de-coll/ages. It marked the beginning of his dedication to the Fluxes-Movement, which he co-founded in the 1960s.

Vostell gained fame as well with his drawings and objects, such as images of American B-52 bombers, published under the rubric "capitalist realism" or by including television sets with his paintings. Nam June Paik and Vostell were two figures of the Fluxes Movement and both developed a great fetishism for television and the culture of consumption.