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Joseph Beuys
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Joseph Beuys

Germany

Biography

In 1953-54 Joseph Beuys designed furniture for a collector, three tables and a shelf. One of these tables, Monk, was transformed into a work of art and installed in Block Beuys in Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in 1967.
Researching details of Beuys

´ conception of these pieces, Eva and Wenzel Beuys discovered complex contexts and links into the oeuvre of the artist, put down in a publication by Schellmann Art, Munich. The three tables and the shelf were manufactured for the first time in 2008 by Sch

ellmann Furniture in editions of 15, jointly with a tripod lamp which Beuys had built for himself.

Articles about Joseph Beuys

Stillness in the real world

Stillness in the real world

10/20/2013

Hitherto creative types have tended to consider self-help books a waste of time. But that is about to change. Frank Berzbach has written a small book about the “Kunst ein kreatives Leben zu führen” (The art of living a creative life), which looks at how a creative person might achieve a state of Zen in their everyday life.

The longing for a studiolo

The longing for a studiolo

7/17/2013

With “7 Studies”, gallerist and furniture maker Jörg Schellmann is showing in Munich how seven renowned artists and designers, among them Stefan Diez, Liam Gillick and Donald Judd, are furnishing workspaces. And that they are not all that far from the Renaissance studiolo.

To create is to change

To create is to change

4/11/2013

There is certainly no shortage of photographs of Joseph Beuys. But few accompanied him as continuously and closely as did graphic designer Klaus Staeck and printer/publisher Gerhard Steidl. The snapshots taken on several occasions between 1972 and 1986 shed light on some surprising and unexpected facets to the artist and grand communicator.

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