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The Artistic Alchemy of Joseph Beuys – Dr David Adams

Beuys …linked up with others working on Steiner's idea of a threefold social organism and made the promotion of these ideas a central part of his activity from the mid-1960s onward. He also incorporated into his work fundamental anthroposophical ideas about the human constitution, cosmic and human evolution, and higher forms of pure thinking, although he didn't directly acknowledge Steiner as the source of most of these ideas.

Beuys once told author Volker Harlan about his own, independent supersensible [spiritual] experiences and perceptions, the capacity for which he acquired from reading Steiner's works, and how he had found that Steiner's explanations were able to explain adequately what he had experienced.

At his death Beuys's library included more than 120 volumes by Steiner, thirty-some of which were extensively marked with underlining and marginal  drawings.