Multiple: Paper bag with red and blue print
Germany, 1977-80
Joseph Beuys (1921 – 1986) – German performance artist, sculptor, illustrator, art theorist and professor at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany
Signed in pencil ‘Joseph Beuys’
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Catalog raisonné: Schellmann 324
Dimensions: 24.5 x 10 cm
Good Condition
Provenance: Private collection, Germany
The DDR paper bags in various designs are content related to Beuys' ‘Wirtschaschaftswert-Prinzip’, in which the artist deals with the issues and relations of art and capital

In his works of art Joseph Beuys was intensively dealing with the topics of art and capital, an engagement that led to a newly defined and ‘extended concept of art’. The DDR paper bags in various designs with some handwritten annotations and stamps are content related to the series ‘Wirtschaftswerte’ and are published in an edition of c. 350 signed copies.



The paper bag is signed in pencil ‘Joseph Beuys’. It is in good condition with two small imperfections at the opening. The paper is lightly wavy, otherwise overall of good impression. Dimensions: 24.5 x 10 cm.



Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)

Born 1921 in Krefeld, Joseph Beuys was one of the most important German artists of the second half of the 20th century. After his military service at the German Air Force and his legendary plane crash in 1944, Beuys began his career as an artist as the master pupil of Ewald Mataré at the Stately Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany. Already in the early days, the artist received numerous commissions and in 1961 he was called to the Dusseldorf Academy as a professor. Beuys works were exhibited at the documenta III in Kassel and the 37th Biennale in Venice and were honored with many, international awards. In 1979 Beuys met Andy Warhol who created the famous silkscreen portrait of the artist. In 1986 Beuys died at the age of 64 in his studio in Dusseldorf. His works are among the collections of numerous international museums, such as the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. (cru)

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