A GROUP OF FIVE JOSEPH BEUYS (GERMAN 1921-1986) POSTCARDS
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offset lithograph on cardstock with ink stamps and pen

LOT NOTES
Joseph Beuys was a revolutionary artist, performer and theorist of the post-war era, who viewed art as a vehicle for social change and transformation. He is mostly associated with Fluxus movement. Beuys produced assemblages, installations, performances, prints, and drawings, among other media in which he reflected on humanism, sociology and anthroposophy. Beuys participated in the Venice Biennale and Documenta multiple times, and his works are in the collections of Harvard Art Museum, Moderna Museet, Tate Modern, the Kunsthalle Bern, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art and others.

The set includes:
a) Deutsche Studentenpartei postcard, 1968, signed in pencil center right, marked with Deutsche Studenten Partei postcard stamp;
b)Bonnefanten postcard, 1975, signed upper center;
c)Signatur postcard, 1956 [postcard], signed in the center; d)Heidelberg postcard, Fluxus Zone West, 1970, marked with Fluxes Zone West stamp;
c)Fettecke postcard, 1972, signed lower center.

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