Untitled V

Joseph BeuysWW-1949-M087591

1949·Glass, wood, and metal display case containing (left to right): Untitled, 1978: oil paint, stamp print, and baking mold, in two parts; Two Young Ladies with Luminous Bread (Zwei Fräulein mit leuchtendem Brot), 1966: typed paper and painted chocolate bar; Magnetic Waste (Magnetischer Abfall), 1975: cast iron; Zinc Box Covered with Sulfur (Tamponed Corner) (mit Schwefel überzogene Zinkkiste [tamponierte Ecke]), 1970: paint, zinc boxes, cloth with tampon, in two parts; Untitled (Nipple) (Ohne Titel [Brustwarze]), c. 1970: cast wax, felt, and sugar in glass jar; Untitled, c. 1964: felt, chalk, and hare fur; Corset (Corsett), 1949: bronze, fat, and wax; Untitled (Sugar Corner) (Ohne Titel [Zuckerecke]), 1967-68: hare bone, napkin, sugar, pieces of sulfur, and colored plastic cable, in cardboard box painted with watercolor; Untitled, 1982: ceramic cup and dried potato plant; Mirror Piece, 1975: cast ceramic containing potato; Untitled, 1974: chocolate and oil paint on shoebox lid·79 x 91 1/2 x 26 1/2" (200.7 x 232.4 x 67.3 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1949
Medium: Glass, wood, and metal display case containing (left to right): Untitled, 1978: oil paint, stamp print, and baking mold, in two parts; Two Young Ladies with Luminous Bread (Zwei Fräulein mit leuchtendem Brot), 1966: typed paper and painted chocolate bar; Magnetic Waste (Magnetischer Abfall), 1975: cast iron; Zinc Box Covered with Sulfur (Tamponed Corner) (mit Schwefel überzogene Zinkkiste [tamponierte Ecke]), 1970: paint, zinc boxes, cloth with tampon, in two parts; Untitled (Nipple) (Ohne Titel [Brustwarze]), c. 1970: cast wax, felt, and sugar in glass jar; Untitled, c. 1964: felt, chalk, and hare fur; Corset (Corsett), 1949: bronze, fat, and wax; Untitled (Sugar Corner) (Ohne Titel [Zuckerecke]), 1967-68: hare bone, napkin, sugar, pieces of sulfur, and colored plastic cable, in cardboard box painted with watercolor; Untitled, 1982: ceramic cup and dried potato plant; Mirror Piece, 1975: cast ceramic containing potato; Untitled, 1974: chocolate and oil paint on shoebox lid
Dimensions: 79 x 91 1/2 x 26 1/2" (200.7 x 232.4 x 67.3 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Joseph Beuys

Artist

Joseph Beuys

Sculpture

Beuys has been an artist, teacher and theorist highly influential in international contemporary art in the latter half of the 20th century. He is a founder of the art movement known as Fluxus, and a practitioner and exemplar of happenings, and performance art. His work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy, and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts) for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics.

Krefeld, Germany

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