NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Joseph Beuys on 6 August 2021. Joseph Beuys has been played on NTS in shows including SKYAPNEA, featured first on 30 January 2016. Songs played include In Memoriam George Maciunas, Klavierduett, 7.7.1978, Kräfte Sammeln and Op.50: Requiem Of Art.

Joseph Beuys was born in 1921 in Krefeld, a city in northwestern Germany near the Dutch border. He grew up in the nearby towns of Kleve and Rindern, the only child in a middle class, strongly Catholic family. During his youth he pursued dual interests in the natural sciences and art, and he chose a career in…