Joseph Kosuth - Early Life and Career

Early Life and Career

Kosuth was born in Toledo, Ohio. The son of a French/English/Cherokee mother and Hungarian father. . He is related to Lajos Kossuth famous for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Joseph attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963, Kosuth enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art on a scholarship. He spent the following year in Paris and traveled throughout Europe and North Africa. He moved to New York in 1965 and attended the School of Visual Arts there until 1967. From 1971 he studied anthropology and philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York.

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