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1. Drawings from Zeichnungen: Zu den beiden 1965 wiederentdeckten Skizzenbücher "Codices Madrid" von Leonardo da Vinci (Drawings After the Two "Codices Madrid" Sketchbooks by Leonardo da Vinci That Were Rediscovered in 1965), 1974
96 drawings, graphite on paper, and/or, in a few instances, purple pencil and purple crayon
Various dimensions: sheet sizes range between
8½ x 5½ inches and 13½ x 10 5/8 inches
Collection Dia Center for the Arts
2. Fond III/3, 1979
Overall dimensions variable: in this installation, approximately 59 x 239 x 120 inches
Nine stacks: each with 111 sheets of felt, one sheet
of copper
Sheets of copper and felt 59 x 79 x 39½ inches
Collection Dia Center for the Arts
3. Fond IV/4, 1979
Overall dimensions 38¾ x 392½ x 19 inches
Fourteen stacks: 12 with 77 sheets of felt, one sheet
of iron; one with 76 sheets of felt, one sheet of iron; one with 60 sheets of copper, 47 sheets of iron
(1,000 sheets of felt altogether)
Stacks of iron and felt 38¾ x 27 7/8 x 19 inches
Collection Dia Center for the Arts
4. Brazilienfond (Brazilian Fond), 1979
Overall dimensions variable: in this installation, approximately 74 x 230 x 178 inches
Four U-shaped stacks, each with approximately 155 sheets of felt, and a U-shaped copper base
Each unit 74 x 99 x 79½ inches, each sheet either 3/8 or 5/8 inches thick
Iron horse shoe
Collection Dia Center for the Arts
5. Aus Berlin: Neues Vom Kojoten (From Berlin: News from the Coyote), 1979
Installation including felt blanket, gloves, toenail clippings, animal and human hair balls, cigar box, fire extinguishers, walking stick, flash light, musician's triangle and striker, hay, bundles of the Wall Street Journal, hat, plaster rubble and lathe, 10 acetylene lanterns on sticks, arc light, sulfur
Dimensions variable: in this installation, floor measures 18 feet 6 inches x 20 feet 6 inches
Collection Dia Center for the Arts
6. Möbiuswerfer, 1983
Thirteen mobius bands made of sheet lead; iron cable 197 inches; drawing on cardboard 19 x 47 inches; a sheet-metal object 5¼ x 22 x 4 inches
Private Collection
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Joseph Beuys. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1979. Text by Caroline Tisdall.
Joseph Beuys. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1987.
Joseph Beuys: Drawings After the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci. Ed. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. New York: Dia Center for the Arts, in association with Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1998. Essays by Martin Kemp, Cornelia Lauf, and Ann Temkin.
Joseph Beuys: Life and Works. Ed. Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz, Karin Thomas. New York: Barron's, 1979.
Joseph Beuys: Natur, Materie, Form. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, 1991. Text by Armin Zweite.
Joseph Beuys: Retrospektiv. Ed. Heiner Bastien. Berlin: Martin Gropius Bau, 1988.
Joseph Beuys: Zeichnungen: Zu den beiden 1965 wiederentdeckten Skizzenbücher "Codices Madrid" von Leonardo da Vinci. Stuttgart: Manus Presse, 1975.
The Unknown Leonardo. Ed. Ladislao Reti. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
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| Biography |
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Joseph Beuys was born in Kleve, Germany, on May 21, 1921, where he grew up. Trained at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he taught there as a professor of sculpture from 1961 until his controversial dismissal in 1972. In 1953 the van der Grinten's collection of Beuys's sculpture and drawing was first exhibited. In the early sixties, he became involved with Fluxus, taking part in a number of concerts, as well as devising his own "actions," which for a time became his principal aesthetic mode. In 1970 a large collection of his work formed under the artist's own aegis, the Ströher Collection, was installed in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, which remains the most important public collection of his work. Joseph Beuys died in Düsseldorf on January 21, 1986.
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| Lecture |
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Pamela Kort will lecture on Joseph Beuys's work on Thursday, December 3, 1998, at 6:30pm. Pamela Kort is an art historian specializing in twentieth-century art in German-speaking Europe.
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| Funding |
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Funding for this exhibition is being provided by the members of the Dia Art Council.
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