Wolf Vostell (born 14 October 1932 in Leverkusen, Germany, died 3 April 1998 in Berlin) was a German painter, sculptor and Happening artist of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the pioneers of video art, environment-sculptures, Happenings and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete. Early life Wolf Vostell put his artistic ideas into practice from 1950 onwards. In 1953 he began an apprenticeshipas a lithographer and studied at the Academy of Applied Art in Wuppertal. Vostell created his first dé-coll/age in 1954.In 1955/56 he studied at the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris and in 1957 heattended the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. Works His philosophy was built around the idea that destruction is all around us and it runs through all of the twentieth century. He used the term dé-