GDR Felt | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1995.400
People: Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
Title: GDR Felt
Other Titles: Original Language Title: DDR-Filz
Classification: Multiples
Work Type: multiple, object
Date: 1979
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/219246

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wool felt office-machine pad, inscribed

Dimensions

33 x 30 x 1.2 cm (13 x 11 13/16 x 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in red ink on label: "Joseph Beuys"

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: 11 / 12 plus some unnumbered a.p.
Standard Reference Number: Schellmann 315, p. 255

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, and Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: 1995.400
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by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

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