For Footwashing | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.356
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title: For Footwashing
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Für Fusswaschung
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: multiple, object
Date: 1977
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/219219

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Enameled bowl, inscribed
Dimensions: 8.5 x 32 cm (3 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: Edition of 15
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 209, p. 201

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: 1995.356
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

In/Tuition: a seminar's engagement with Joseph Beuys, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/20/1997 - 12/07/1997
Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples from New England Collections, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 01/28/2006 - 03/08/2006
Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007

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