An original print from Joseph Beuys
Etching (1982)
Catalogue raisonné Schellmann ref. 422
Recto posthumously stamped, verso signed and numbered (31) by son Wenzel Beuys
Dimensions: (Height x Width):
Paper 56,5 x 45 cm / Plate 29,1 x 20,8 cm
Publisher: Grafos Verlag AG (Vaduz)
These copies are additionaly made prints, which - following the numbering and signing of the regular edition - were owned by the artist until his death in 1986. Since these copies were neither numbered nor signed, son Wenzel Beuys signed and numbered these on the verso and provided them with an estate stamp to ensure authenticity and put a stop to possible fraud .
Information about the artist:
Joseph Beuys was born in Krefeld in 1921, he died in Düsseldorf in 1986. Pioneer of contemporary art movements. Sculptor, draftsman, painter, action artist, art theorist. Childhood and the 2nd World War had a lasting impact on his creative reflection. One of the most important artists of the 2nd half of this century. 1941-1945 soldier, 1947-1952 studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, among others with Ewald Mataré, from 1961-1972 professor there. 1963-1974 Actions in connection with the Fluxus movement. Beuys ritualizes movement sequences interspersed with autobiographical, mythical or historically charged themes or objects (Manresa 1966; Haupstrom-Fluxus, Eurasienstab, 1967). Represented at every Documenta from 1964-1986 (including Honey Pump at Work in 1977). With his materials felt, copper, fat, wax, Beuys points to energies and textures of matter: storing and flowing, heat and cold influence, insulating and exuding, form and chaos. He creates drawings, sculptural images, spatial installations, multiples and writings, and graphic cycles. His artistic motivation in the sense of the expanded concept of art blurs the line between everyday life and art object. In this way he also transfers the concept of sculpture to the human being up to his social organism. In 1973 Beuys founds the Free International University for Creativity and International Research FIU. Beuys influences politics and ecology through the journalistic media. Today there are 4000 works by Joseph Beuys in the van der Grinten Collection at Schloss Moyland, furthermore a block of Beuys in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, the Secret Block, 1945-1976, Collection. Marx, Berlin,; the 7000 Oaks, 1982-1987, in Kassel; Zeige deine Wunde, 1976, in the Städtische Galerie Munich. This biography is subject to copyright. (c) Evi Kliemand, 1998. All rights reserved. Reproduced with kind permission of the author.
Information about the publisher:
The Grafos Verlag AG in Vaduz was founded in 1973 as a "prints publisher" and distributor of original prints. As an interface between artists and art collectors Grafos Verlag, thanks to their personal contacts with many first line artists, selected or commissioned editions and interesting prints directly in the artist's studio. This highly productive collaboration with artists such as Alt, Antes, Beuys, Breker, Chillida, Dali, Erni, Förg, Kokoschka, Meckseper, Miró, Moore, Saura, Schumacher, Tapies, Tübke and Vasarely lasted over 30 years, many of these prints today are particularly highly valued works.
After 36 years of operation, the company closed its doors in 2009.
