Publisher promotion card: Offset on cardboard
Switzerland, 1970
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) – German action and object artist and draftsman
Signed on the right with red felt pen ‘Joseph Beuys’
With the stamp ‘Free International University’
Promotion card for the book ‘Von Hodler zur Antiform. Geschichte der Kunsthalle Bern’, Benteli Verlag, Bern 1970
In black wooden frame
Dimensions: 10.9 x 18 cm
Very good condition
Joseph Beuys' hand signed works are highly sought-after; multiples by the artist fetch up to more than €61,000 at international auctions

The artist Joseph Beuys has signed this promotion card with which the publisher Benteli advertised the new publication ‘From Hodler to antiform’ by Jean-Christophe Ammann and Harald Szeemann in Bern in 1970. The artist also provided it with one of his stamps and thus turned it into a multiple.

The promotion card of the publisher Benteli in Bern is signed on the right with red felt pen ‘Joseph Beuys’, and provided with the stamp ‘Free International University’. It is overall in very good condition and framed unmounted. The frame is in good condition with only minor signs of wear. The card measures 10.9 x 18 cm. The framed dimensions are 28 x 26.8 cm.

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)

Born in Krefeld in 1921, 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 Düsseldorf. Early on, the artist received numerous commissions and in 1961 he was called to the Düsseldorf Academy as a professor. Beuys’s works were exhibited at the documenta III in Kassel and the 37th Venice Biennale 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 Düsseldorf. His works can be found in many international museums such as the Tate Modern in London, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. (fea)

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