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Beuys Alive

In Germany alone, the home of Beuys, the anniversary is being celebrated with exhibitions in twenty-eight locations. Worldwide, there are exhibitions across all continents including Australia, Japan, the United States, and numerous European countries.

Especially in the Rhineland, and more precisely on the Lower Rhine, where the artist spent most of his life, the artist is remembered in numerous themed exhibitions. In Kleve, his hometown, where the artist maintained a studio until the early 1960s, the rooms of the Museum Kurhaus Kleve –, 1965.

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