Beuys, Joseph

(b Krefeld,
12 May 1921; d
Düsseldorf,
23 Jan 1986)
 Bathtub
for a
Heroine  
Animal
1950
Woman
bronze
1949,
and
Bronze
mixed
315 x
media
79x85
mm

Crimean
Tatars
Joseph Beuys as soldier (1942)

Fat Chair (1964;

Darmstadt, Hess. Landesmus.).
 Lightning with Stag in its Glare (Blitzschlag Mit
Lichtschein auf Hirsch), 1985. Aluminum, bronze, and
iron, thirty-nine elements, dimensions variable. Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum

Snowfall, 1965; Basle,

Mus. Gegenwartskst

‘expanded
concept
of art’
Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Ewald Mataré
Honey Pump at the
Workplace for the
Documenta exhibition in
Kassel in 1977 (now
Humlebæk, Louisiana
Mus.),
In 1965 he demonstrated in the
Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf How to
Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
 Zeige deine Wunde (Show Your Wound),
1974-75
Iron tools mounted on stamped wooden
sticks; wooden planks; chalk on blackboards;
dissection tables; lamps; galvanized iron
boxes covered with glass and containing fat;
test tubes; bird skulls; clinical thermometers;
Stassenbahnhaltestelle preserving jars with gauze filters; pitchforks
(Tramstop), 1976 with cotton scarves atop two blackboards;
Kröller-Müller Museum,
Otterlo, The Netherlands
7000 Oaks
Images of Beuys at Dokumenta 7
Kassel, Germany, 1982

Palazzo Regale:Royal Palace, 1985,

installation (two brass and glass vitrines
equipped with objects, seven varnished
brass plates covered with gold dust
Schlitten" 1969, Sammlung Froehlich, Stuttgart
 From the action
Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus,
May 29-30, 1969
Experimenta 3,
A Frankfurt/Main,
Germany
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From the action

Celtic + ~~~~~, April 6, 1971
Civil Defense Rooms, Basel,
Switzerland
Three Pots for the
Poorhouse - Action
Object, Two
blackboards with
chalk, three cast-iron
pots, cord , 1974
I like America and America likes me. 1974
Untitled, 1984. Brass and glass vitrine containing Encounter with Beuys (Incontro con
Beuys), 1974, felt, copper, fat, and cord, Overall dimensions: 75 x 78 5/8 x 23 1/2
inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
 Virgin, April 4, 1979. Chalk on blackboard, chalk and soap bar on wood table, wood
chair, electrical cable, socket, and light bulb, dimensions vary with installation. Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum.
Virgin, April 4, 1979/June 23,
1979. Chalk, tempera, wood,
and soap on blackboard, 33 1/16
x 49 5/16 inches.
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum
The Pack, 1969
Staaliche Museen
Kassel, Neue Galerie
 Ausfegen (Sweeping Up), 1972-85
René Block Collection in deposit of Neues Museum in Nürnberg
 Terremoto, 1981. Typesetting machine, Italian flag, felt, nine blackboards with chalk
drawings and diagrams, metal container with fat and lead type, cassette recorder with
tape, and brochure, 80 x 137 3/4 x 193 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The End of the Twentieth Century, 1982-85, Tate
 F.I.U.: The Defense of Nature, 1983–85. Automobile, shovels, copper pieces,
pamphlets, and slate blackboard, dimensions vary with installation. Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum.
Infiltration homogen für Konzertflügel (Homogeneous Infiltration for Piano), 1966, piano
covered with felt and leather, 100 x 152 x 240 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris