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Joseph Beuys – Greetings from the Eurasian

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

Batterien, 1959

Joseph Beuys
Object , 65 x 18.2 cm / 70 x 50.6 cm
pencil and tempera pain on cardboard, laid on butter paper

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

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