Wolf Vostell was born in 1932 in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). From 1955 to 1957 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1958 at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. In the 1960s he was part of the Fluxus movement and performed his first “happening”. He participated in the 1968 Biennale in Venice. In 1974 and 1975 the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Nationalgalerie in West Berlin devoted a first retrospective to his work. In 1978 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel. He was awarded the Hannah Höch Prize in 1997. From 1977 he divided his time between Berlin and Malpartida de Cáceres (Spain), where the Museo Vostell was opened in 1994. Vostell died in 1998 in Berlin.