Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) was a German artist born in Leverkusen who worked across painting, sculpture, happenings, installation and video. He is known for dé-coll/age, a word he found in a Paris newspaper in 1954 and turned into a method of tearing, blurring and breaking down images, objects and sound. He took part in the 1962 Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden and was among the first artists to put a television set into an artwork. Vostell staged his first happening, The Theater is in the Street, in Paris in 1958, and Cityrama in Cologne in 1961. In 1968 he set up Labor e.V.