A photolithograph with black type and a round stamp in black ink.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The photolithograph is long and narrow printed and is printed on off-white paper. There are ten photographs, five rows of two each, showing images of the artist’s installation at Documenta in Kassel, Germany. The top left image is of a group of people seated in a hall with three men seated at a table. Other photographs show the piping and equipment with text in black in in the lower left reading Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz. The work is signed Joseph Beuys, and bears a round stamp which reads Free International University.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.368
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title
Honey Pump in the Workplace
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Honeypump in the Workplace
Original Language Title: Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple, print
Date
1977
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218892

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Offset photolithograph and screen print, uncut printer's page, stamped
Technique
Photolithograph and screen print
Dimensions
62 x 33 cm (24 7/16 x 13 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
11 / 50
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 232A, p. 215

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.368
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/10/2019 - 10/08/2019

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