The museum has around 6, 000 Beuys works, including a vast cache of early figurative drawings.
The museum now rotates its Beuys drawings every six months, and exhibits them in beautifully lit, minimalist spaces.
He was also hugely influenced by the German artist, Joseph Beuys, after meeting him through Edinburgh gallery owner, Richard Demarco.
Beuys lived here from 1959 until his death in 1986, primarily in Oberkassel, the leafy district across the Rhine from the Old Town.
Home to the "Block Beuys, " a seven-room installation first created in 1970, the museum serves as custodian of the largest surviving work by the artist.
Eva Beuys, the artist's widow, still lives in the city, and the gold-hued "Palazzo Regale" installation, with its evocation of ancient burial rituals, coupled with objects recalling the artist's own life, is of supreme importance, says Ms. Temkin.
Raised in Vienna, Mr. Hollein was immersed in the world of art from childhood, when personalities such as Joseph Beuys and Frank Gehry would visit for dinner at the invitation of his mother, a fashion designer, and his father, an architect.
Beuys's distinctive use of industrial objects took shape in his Kurhaus years, but some of his earliest artistic traces can be found in Schloss Moyland ( moyland.de), a neo-Gothic castle outside Kleve housing the art collection of the van der Grinten brothers, two early supporters.
Evidently, the entire bunch of complainers has very little knowledge of actual art, and the works of people like Damien Hirst (with his cows and sharks in formaldehyde, his dismembered butterflies), Wim Delvoye (with his tattooed pigs), Joseph Beuys (and his dead hares) and the hot-this-minute Maurizio Cattelan (with his suspended horse).
If it all sounds too much, Mrs Kramlich points out that living with media art is really no different from living with fixed-image art. (The couple have works by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys in their mock-Tudor San Francisco home.) The difference, she adds with an eye to California's electricity troubles, is that you have an on-off switch and when the images vanish, the house is an artwork of its own.
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