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Beuys, Joseph
born 1921 in D - Krefeld, died 1986 in D - Düsseldorf
poster: bei dieser Wahl: die GRÜNEN
1979
original design
colour silkscreen
84 cm x 59 cm
poster in the size Din A1 with any slight traces of use, a few small damages at the lower border, slight spot at the lower right corner
(see additional picture)
order no. 32261
motive:
Designed by Johannes Stüttgen, this poster shows Beuys' sculpture 'Der Unbesiegbare' (The Unconquerable One). It depicts a hare made from modeling clay being threatened by a plastic toy soldier - for Beuys, this represents the senseless war waged by cold technology against natural warmth and fertility. The German Green Party declined to use this poster as part of their election campaign." (Döring, 2011, p.106)
You can see the small figures today in Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (hall 7, show case 4).
Lit.:
Joseph Beuys - Plakate, Kat. bearbeitet von P.Weiss u. F. Britsch, Verlag Schneider-Henn, München 1991, 77
Siben, Isabel: Joseph Beuys - Plakate / Posters, mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Claus von der Osten, München u.a. 2004, 125
Döring, Jürgen: Phantasie an die Macht - Politik im Künstlerplakat / Power to the Imagination - Artists, Posters and Politics, hg. von Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2011, p.106 f.
Joseph Beuys: Plakate. Posters - Verzeichnis der Plakate aus den Sammlungen von Claus von der Osten und Rene S. Spiegelberger / Index of Posters from the collections Claus von der Osten & Rene S. Spiegelberger, München u.a. 2021, p. 139 f., no. 160 f.
