Joseph Beuys:
Picture "From the Life of the Bee" (1978), unframed
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Picture "From the Life of the Bee" (1978), unframed
Joseph Beuys:
Picture "From the Life of the Bee" (1978), unframed

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limited, total 100 copies | numbered | signed | aquatint etching on BFK Rives | unframed | size 56 x 76 cm (h/w)

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Picture "From the Life of the Bee" (1978), unframed
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Picture "From the Life of the Bee" (1978), unframed

Original aquatint on BFK Rives, edition of 75 copies marked with Arabic numerals + 25 copies numbered with Roman numerals (offered here) out of a total of 274 copies, signed by hand. WVZ Schellmann 285 B. Unframed. Motif size/sheet size 56 x 76 cm (h/w).

Portrait of the artist Joseph Beuys

About Joseph Beuys

1921-1986

Sculptor, draughtsman, painter, performance artist and art theorist - Joseph Beuys is undoubtedly one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Already during his lifetime, he became a legend with his hat and aviator vest, paving the way for contemporary art today.

However, one typically stands in front of his works like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. And this metaphor actually fits quite well. Animals appear repeatedly in the art star's self-developed mythology, for example, in the environmental art "Lightning with Stag in Its Glare", which is permanently installed in the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The monumental installation consists of 39 metal casts of clay models that are arranged in a room that has been specially designed for the piece. The work compromises dark heaps of clay, symbolising amorphous primaeval creatures, in front of a six-metre-high triangular form cast in bronze, which thins out towards the top and symbolises lightning. The depiction of a stag, cast from an old ironing board resting on "wooden legs", stands out with its silvery matt surface. A kind of creation scene?

Beuys commented that the stag was a component of nature for the ordinary consciousness and raised the following question: "But how does nature now react if every future nature will be a man-made nature?" It is the 80s, Beuys' visionary reflections go far beyond the boundaries of the art world. With the figure of the stag, which also appears very frequently in his drawings, the artist opens up a whole world of possible interpretations. He also establishes art-historical references, for example, to German genre painting and such nature scenes that usually show the stag roaring majestically in front of a lush green forest, a popular motif in German living rooms that has nothing to do with the idea of art that Beuys conveyed. It is difficult if not impossible, and certainly unintentional, to fully understand the artist's sensually enigmatic works.

With Beuys‘ art, it is about feeling something. As is always the case with art.

Hand-signed prints by Beuys are rare and highly sought after: top-ranking investment objects.

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