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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.743
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Title
Do-It-Yourself Thread
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Heimwerkerbindfaden
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1977-1984
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219109

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Thread, cardboard, and paper wrapper, inscribed in graphite, stamped
Dimensions
sight: 15 x 12 x 3 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at c.l. of wrapper: Joseph Beuys
  • inscription: l.l. of wrapper, graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: 1 Wirtschaftswert
  • stamp: c.r. of wrapper, blue ink, English: FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (circular stamp)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.743
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

Verification Level

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