In 1940, the story goes, 19-year-old Joseph Beuys
volunteered for the Luftwaffe. Three years later, while on a mission,
his plane crashed on the Crimean Front, instantly killing the pilot.
Beuys survived. According to Beuys, he only survived because some
Tartars found him unconscious in the snow and took him back to their
tents to care for him. They covered his body in fat and wrapped him in
felt to keep him warm. As he regained consciousness the pungent smell of
the fat and the felt appeared to awaken his inner artist. That's how he
told it anyway. The truth was probably a little more prosaic; he was
rescued by a German commando and taken to military hospital where there
was no fat, no felt and in all likelihood, no Tartars.
It doesn't matter whether the story is true or not, it was important
to Beuys. It inspired him to create several remarkable works of art such
as The Pack
(1969), which consists of a Volkswagen bus with 20 wooden sleds, each
with a rolled-up felt, leather belt, fat, rope and flashlight. The
Story, as it came to be known, wasn't just an inspiration for much of
his work, but a statement of his optimistic belief in humanity's ability
to survive if only we cared for one another.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/05/joseph-beuys-homogeneous-infiltration
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