Reborn Cavemen | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.495
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title: Reborn Cavemen
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Wiedergeborene Höhlenmenschen
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: multiple, print
Date: 1983
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/218821

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Photocopy with red fiber-tip ink, in transparent plastic sleeve, printed and inscribed

Technique

Photocopy

Dimensions

31 x 21.5 cm (12 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: on plastic sleeve

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: 91 / 200, 100 completed
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 478, p. 362

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.495
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

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