He is considered one of the most radical artistic figures of the 20th century: Düsseldorfer Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) elevated life itself to art and created a myth around himself in which truth and fiction were blurred. The Viennese illustrator and author Lenz Mosbacher, born in 1993 to an artist couple, plunges into Beuys’ life with refreshing nonchalance, which he describes in his debut work Beuys – The Invention of Truth unfolds in a series of episodes.
