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Nature 435, 413 (26 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/435413b; Published online 25 May 2005

Love of nature led Beuys to new artistic language

Pete Jeffs1

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As a geneticist-turned-artist, I enjoyed Martin Kemp's Science in Culture article on the German artist Joseph Beuys, "The Pied Piper of Düsseldorf" (Nature 434, 141; 2005). However, I believe that Beuys' relationship with the sciences goes even deeper than portrayed here.