Ever the rebel: remembering Joseph Beuys, 30 years on

It’s 30 years since the incomparable, influential and insane artist Joseph Beuys died (23 January 1986, born 1921). Known as much for his conflicts with authority as his conceptual creations, his relationship with the art market was unsurprisingly volatile. In 1969, Beuys was the first West German artist to sell for over 100,000 deutschmarks through the dealer René Block at the third edition of Art Cologne, the world’s oldest Modern and contemporary art fair. (At the time, a