Untitled I
1962-81
Joseph Beuys
German, 1921–1986
Painting & Sculpture
- Maker/Artist
- Beuys, Joseph
- Classification
- Installation
- Formatted Medium
- Glass, wood, and metal display case containing (left to right): Monuments/4 Chocolate Detonations (Monumente/4 Schokoladensprengungen), c. 1964: chocolate; Untitled, 1962: dried meat, paint, and chocolate; Untitled, 1977: slate; Rose for Direct Democracy (Rose für direkte Demokratie), 1973: rose and graduated cylinder; Untitled, 1964: wood board, oil paint, laundry line, clothes pins, wax toenail, hair, fat, felt, tin can cover, tar, and iron weight; Untitled, c. 1963, metal rod and wax; Action German Student Party (Aktion Deutsche Studentenpartei), 1968: paper, printed paper, glass jar, rosemary, and essential oils, in three parts; Neck (Hals), 1981: stem of a plant and glass bottle
- Medium
- glass, wood, metal, display, case, containing, left, right, monuments, chocolate, detonations, monumente, schokoladensprengungen, untitled, dried, meat, paint, slate, rose, direct, democracy, für, direkte, demokratie, graduated, cylinder, board, oil, laundry, line, clothes, pins, wax, toenail, hair, fat, felt, tin, can, cover, tar, iron, weight, rod, action, german, student, party, aktion, deutsche, studentenpartei, paper, printed, jar, rosemary, essential, oils, parts, neck, hals, stem, plant, bottle
- Dimensions
- 79 x 91 1/2 x 26 1/2" (200.7 x 232.4 x 67.3 cm)
- Departments
- Painting & Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1150.2007.a
- Credit Line
- Gift of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann
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