Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) was a German painter, sculptor, noise music maker and
happening artist. He is one of the
pioneers of
video art, environment-sculptures, happenings and the
Fluxus movement. Together with
Nam June Paik and
George Maciunas he organised the Festival “Festum Fluxorum” in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1962. This festival is considered
to be the birth of the
Fluxus movement. Vostell was the first artist in art history to integrate a television set into a work
of art (“Deutscher Ausblick” from 1958).
