9. Joseph Beuys

Beuys, Joseph(b Krefeld,

12 May 1921; d Düsseldorf, 23 Jan 1986)

CrimeanTatars

Animal Woman

1949, Bronze

315 x79x85

mm

Bathtub for a Heroine  1950 bronzeandmixedmedia

Fat Chair (1964; Darmstadt, Hess. Landesmus.).

Joseph Beuys as soldier (1942)

Snowfall, 1965; Basle, Mus. Gegenwartskst

‘expanded concept of art’

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

Ewald Mataré

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

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; preserving jars with gauze filters; pitchforks with cotton scarves atop two blackboards;

Stassenbahnhaltestelle (Tramstop), 1976Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

7000 OaksImages of Beuys at Dokumenta 7Kassel, 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 Celtic + ~~~~~, April 6, 1971 Civil Defense Rooms, Basel, Switzerland

From the action Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus,

May 29-30, 1969 Experimenta 3, Frankfurt/Main,

Germany AKT IONEN

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