Wolf Vostell

Leverkusen, 1932

Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor born in Leverkusen in 1932. He is known for being one of the first artists to experiment with video art, installations and the happening, and for being a founding father of the Fluxus movement. In 1954 he invented the concept of "décollage" technique opposite to collage which refers to the creation of a new work by tearing or tearing parts of an original, which became fundamental in his work. In 1976 he founded the Vostell Malpartida Museum in Spain.