Joseph Beuys – Greetings from the Eurasian

(c)SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Museum Schloss Moyland, Sammlung van der Grinten Bedburg - Hau/Kreis Kleve, photo: M HKA, 2017

Batterie, 1963

Object , 27.5 x 11.3 x 6 cm
oil paint (brown cross) on corrugated cardboard, cord, leather

Batteries are ways of storing energy, in the case of Beuys’ works he views his sculptures as batteries for personal, collective and ecological development.