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Wolf Vostell

1932 - 1998

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Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Wolf Vostell was married to the Spanish writer Mercedes Vostell and has two sons, David Vostell and Rafael Vostell. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolf Vostell is the 566th most popular painter (up from 594th in 2019), the 1,605th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,607th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Painter.

Wolf Vostell is most famous for his work in the Dada and Fluxus movements, as well as his work with kinetic art.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wolf Vostell ranks 566 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Francesco Filippini, Bernardo Strozzi, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jules Dupré, and Theodor Kittelsen. After him are Charles-André van Loo, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Thomas Lawrence, Mattia Preti, Jules Bastien-Lepage, and Max Pechstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Wolf Vostell ranks 109. Before him are Antonio Tejero, Joe Zawinul, Naina Yeltsina, Eleanor F. Helin, Quino, and Alan Bean. After him are Gunter Sachs, Michihiro Ozawa, Ingemar Johansson, Yukio Shimomura, Paolo Villaggio, and Tatsuya Nakadai. Among people deceased in 1998, Wolf Vostell ranks 67. Before him are Maurice Bucaille, Kamala Sohonie, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Nazim al-Qudsi, Adem Jashari, and Kurt Franz. After him are Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Verner Panton, Efim Geller, James Earl Ray, Anne Desclos, and Don Taylor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolf Vostell ranks 1,605 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Wels (1873), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Carl Correns (1864), Richard Glücks (1889), Méret Oppenheim (1913), and Gustav Landauer (1870). After him are Friedrich Wetter (1928), Karl Korsch (1886), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), and Gunter Sachs (1932).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Wolf Vostell ranks 58. Before him are Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Anton von Werner (1843), and Peter von Cornelius (1784). After him are Max Pechstein (1881), Oswald Achenbach (1827), Karl von Piloty (1826), Hans Burgkmair (1473), Sebald Beham (1500), and Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630).

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