Who created the oblique self-portrait "Felt Suit", displayed on a hanger?

Joseph Beuys created the oblique self-portrait Felt Suit, displayed on a hanger. The work is a life-size felt sculpture made in 1970, shaped like an empty, roughly tailored suit rather than a conventional portrait.

Beuys’s Felt Suit grew out of his performance practice. He wore a felt suit with lengthened arms and legs during the 1970 action The Dead Mouse / Isolation Unit, and later produced the suit as a multiple. Its empty form suggests the artist’s presence without showing his body, making the garment function as an indirect self-portrait.

Felt was one of Beuys’s signature materials. He valued its insulating, warming, and protective qualities, and connected those qualities with healing, survival, and compassion. The hanger is part of the work’s meaning: the suit can be displayed like clothing, but it is not intended simply to be worn. A common mix-up is confusing this work with a portrait photograph of Beuys or with his famous felt hat; Felt Suit is an independent sculptural object.