Joseph Beuys Postcards - Unoriginal Sins

16 Sep AGNETTI BEUYS. 1983. WITH HAUPSTROM STAMPING.

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Stuttgart: Galerie Brigitte March, 1983 16.3 x 23cm, 2pp announcement card envelope promoting Agnetti's "La Cultura Dimenticata quasi a Memoria" (Culture Almost Forgotten by Memory) and Joseph Beuys' "Wirtschaftswerte" - also known as the Economic Value goods where Beuys displayed non-branded goods from Eastern Germany to promote the idea that the economy does not need the advertising and competition between overpriced items. This is a mailed example with stamps and frankings and has a red rubber stamp impression of the Haupstom stamp. This card was hand address to Lucrezia De Domizio. Some slight creasing to edges but overall VG. ...

24 Aug BERGKONIG 1958 – 61. 1983. SIGNED & STAMPED BY BEUYS.

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Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie im Städel, 1983 30 x21cm, 4pp announcement for a solo show with a major sculpture "Bergkonig 1958 - 1961" in bronze. Originally planned in 1958, it is an early work by Beuys with a "crown" above a mass that suggests a fallen figure (perhaps having been decapitated). Five b/w images of the work (including a sketch and painting) along with a text in German by Klaus Gallwitz and a biography of the artist with a small portrait. This example has been rubber stamped with a Haupstrom stamp in blue and signed in pencil on the front by Beuys. VG+....

24 Aug DIE SKULPTUR “DER BERGKONIG” UND 57 ZEICHNUNGEN. 1983.. 1984.

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Frankfurt am Main: Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1982 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with one drawing of a Elk ("Elch" from 1950) reproduced on the front with museum text verso. VG+. ...

02 Aug DER VERSUCH, AM ENDE DOCH NOTH SPASS ZU HABEN. 1983. SIGNED BY BEUYS.

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Dusseldorf: Kunstmueum Dussedorf, 1983
10.5 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a b/w image of a detail of an unidentified Beuys work on the front. A show of works from the Sammlung Ulbricht. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys over left side of the image. Verso publisher's details. ...

26 Jul JOSEPH BEUYS DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS 1941 – 1983. 1983.

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London: Victoria & Albert Museum, n.d. (1983). 11.5 x 14cm, 1pp invitation card for the private view for the exhibition - typographic design in red and black on white. VG+. ...

06 Jun GOLDHASE 1982/83. 1983.

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Koln: Edition Heinz Holtmann, 1983 15.5 x 21.5cm, 2pp publicity card announcing the release of the title edition of photographs of Beuys' Goldhase aktion in Kassel where he melted a gold faux crown down and smelted a sun and a hare as symbols of peace and cross-Europe unity. The front of the card shows Zoa's photograph overprinted with a small golden circle, verso publisher's details. VG+. ...

03 May DUMME KISTE. 1983.

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Dusseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1983
14.8 x 10.6cm, 4pp announcement card with a typographic design throughout. The title work (translates to Dumb Box) is a metal box where all the edges of the metal have felt placed between them preventing electrical conduction. VG+.

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27 Mar JOSEPH BEUYS. 1983.

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Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1983
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduced Beuys' drawing in b/w on the front. Verso gallery details. A example stamped "Presse 11.00 uhr" on the back in red ink else VG+.

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01 Mar BEI DIESER WAHL: DIE GRUNEN. 1982.

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Gelsenkirchen, Free International University - FIU, 1982 14.8 x 10.4cm, 2pp - artist's postcard designed by Johannes Stuettgen for the Green Party in Germany. The Greens took part in elections in the Federal Republic of Germany on March 6, 1983 and for the first time the Greens managed to elect their own supporters to parliament. Beuys was one of the founders of the German Green Party and used his popularity to garner support for the group as here. The signature on the card is printed. VG+. ...

06 Dec DIFESA DELLA NATURA. 1982.

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Pescara/Bonn: FIU/Galerie Klein, 1982
21 x 30cm, 2pp - large format announcement for the "Defence of Nature" event with a colour image of a banner with the event title on it being held up in a vineyard while volunteers pick grapes. Verso event and gallery details in red and black. VG+.

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10 Nov FRIEDENSHASE MIT ZUBEHOR. 1982.

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Gelsenkirchen: FIU, n.d. (1982)
115 x 10.5cm, full colour artist's postcard issued by the Free International University with an image of the golden hare that Beuys made out of a melted-down crown during a public aktion in Kassel Documenta in 1982 to help raise funds for his 7000 Eichen project. VG+.

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02 Nov FELT MULTIPLE. 1982.

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NYC: John GIbson Gallery, 1982
10.3 x 15.3cm, 1pp typographical invitation card reproduced from a hand-written text (by John Gibson who often used his left hand as here and wrote the text upside down to create an unusual effect) for the exhibition "Felt Multiple". VG+.

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