Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
State art school where Joseph Beuys taught, cradle of a world-famous school of photography.
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This guide to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf follows one strange object: a corner of butter that Joseph Beuys pressed into a studio wall here in the early nineteen-eighties. It touches on Beuys as the academy's rebellious sculpture professor, his clash with the institution over who deserved to study art, and his student Johannes Stüttgen. Best heard on Eiskellerstraße, looking up at the windows of the main building.
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