- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1995.266
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Seriaal
- Title
- Back Support for a Fine-Limbed Person (Hare Type) of the 20th Century A.D.
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Rückenstütze eines feingliederigen Menschen (Hasentypus) aus dem 20. Jahrhundert p. Chr.
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- sculpture, multiple
- Date
- 1972
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219190
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Cast iron
- Dimensions
- 96 × 42.5 × 15 cm (37 13/16 × 16 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
65 lb
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Edition
- 7 / 12
- Standard Reference Number
- Schellmann 65, p. 98-99
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Patrons of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.266
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Jessica Morgan, ed., Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Boston, 2003), p. 79, color illus.
Craig Uram, "Is That Supposed to Be There?: Examination and Survey of a Selection of Joseph Beuys' Multiples with Metal Components" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2007), Unpublished, pp. 1-245 passim
Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 47
- Exhibition History
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Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/14/2003 - 08/31/2003
Re-View: S118 European & American Art since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/13/2008 - 04/09/2011
Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013
32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2021 - 04/18/2022
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