30 Jan HINTERGRUNDE II. 1970.
Koln: Art Intermedia, 1970 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement card with a typographic design for a group show with Alvermann, Beuys, Spoerri, Uecker, Walther and Vostell. VG+. ...
04 Oct ORIGINAL GRAFIK SERIES 1 KOLN WITH EXTENSIVE HANDWRITTEN TEXT BY BEUYS. STAMPED THREE TIMES. OCTOBER 1969.
Heidelberg: Edition Tangent, 1969
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp offset. A printed edition in the form of an artist's postcard - this example being signed and hand addressed by Beuys with lengthy signed note to Dieter Schnebel - stamped three times on the front of the card in different colours - red, blue and dark blue. Unique thus.
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15 Aug BLOCKADE ’69. 1969. JOSEPH BEUYS.
Berlin: Galerie Rene Block, 1969 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement card with a b/w image of Beuys' work outside the gallery (the "double spade" was previously used as part of the 24 Studen aktion in 1965). Blockade '69 was a group show in the famous gallery which included Joseph Beuys, Blinky Palermo, Karl Horst Hödicke, Panamarenko, Bernd Lohaus, Rainer Giese, Imi Knoebel, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Sigmar Polke each being given a room. Other artists were given announcement cards specific to their participation in the show. VG+. ...
16 May INTERMEDIA EINLADUNG. 1969.
Heidelberg: Intermedia '69, 1969 21 x 10cm, 6pp (single folded card) - the announcement and programme for the important art event where Beuys and Christiansen performed "Veranderungkonzert" (Change Concert)on the opening day at 8.30pm. Other happenings, films and performances by Spoeeri, Vautier, Lebel, Roth, Albrecht, Pistoletto, Christo, Brehmer, Rinke, and others. Typographic design apart from front cover. VG+. Very scarce documentation....
27 Feb BEUYS & CHRISTIANSEN. ICH VERSUCHE DICH FRIEZULASSEN (MACHEN). 1969.
Berlin: Galerie Rene Block, 1969 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement card with a b/w image of Joseph Beuys and Herring Christiansen looking at each other. The card promoted a Fluxus concert "Ich versuche dich freizulassen (machen)" ("I am trying to set (make) you free"). The concert took placve at the start of the BLOCKADE '69 group show at the famous gallery. ...
29 Jan JOSEPH BEUYS FOND III. 1969.
Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1969.
15 x 21cm, 4pp. Announcement card with a b/w image of Beuys' works Manresa (1966), two of Hauptstrom (1967) and Fond II (1967). this was the 100th exhibition at the gallery. VG+.
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14 Dec JOSEPH BEUYS ZEICHNUNGEN-OBJEKTE. 1968
Koln: Art Intermedia, 1969
14.5 x 21cm, 4pp gatefold card. Announcement for a solo show of early works (drawings and sculptures) by Beuys from the period 1947 to 1957. A text on Beuys by Per Kirkeby is found on the back of the card. Slight brown marks (nascent foxing perhaps) on the front of the card else VG+.
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Koln: Art Intermedia, 1969
16 x 22.5cm, printed mailing envelope with a text from the gallery on the front and on the back "details" of the various events in the gallery for December 1968 (really a newsletter. Some wear from the mailing process and a hand addressed example.
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09 Feb EURASIENSTAB. 1968.
Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1968
11 x 22.3cm, 2pp announcement card for the 82 minute film of the Beuys and Christiansen performance and the exhibition. Typographic design only - printed black on brown card. VG+.
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20 Mar FLUXUS HAUPTSTROM FLUXUS FETTRAUM. 1967.
Darmstadt: Franz Dahlem, 1967.
20.5 x 15.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a performance on 20 March 1967 (with Henning Christiansen)of Hauptstrom where the latter played a violin painted green and an exhibition of works by Beuys. The front of the card show the artist during his explaining art to a dead hare aktion of 1965 - but interestingly in a purple and yellow mirrored duotone. A scarce early card. VG+.
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30 Jan ACCROCHAGE. 1967.
Wide White Space, Antwerpen 1970
21 x 15cm, 4pp (single folded sheet printed recto only) - the exhibition announcement and handout for a group show at the conceptual art gallery - here with listed works by Beuys ("Objekt Joyce" from 1961 and a sculpture "Doppelspaten" from 1965) and others by Fontana, Vasarely, Appel, Tapies, Broodthaers ("Plat a moules" from 1965), Gaul, Van Severen, Manzoni, Panamarenko, Henneman, Heyrman and Palermo. Textual content only. VG+.
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17 Jun … MIT BRAUNKREUZ. 1966.
Berlin: Edition 2 Rene Block Galerie, 1966 11 x 10.5cm. 1pp black on brown card. Announcement for an edition and exhibition at the famous gallery. The edition consisted of a canvas covered box with a signed drawing with 2 brown crosses, 1 divided felt cross, and two printed 2 texts (interestingly one one box contained a gas mask instead of a drawing). VG+ - although a mailed example with handwritten address stamp and franking. Scarce....
26 Nov JOSEPH BEUYS …IRGEND EIN STRANG… 1965. BEUYS FIRST GALLERY EXHIBITION/PERFORMANCE.
Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1965
15 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a b/w image of Beuys pretending to be asleep on a lump of fat. This was the artist's first exhibition/performance in a private gallery and where he explained art to a "dead hare" by showing all of the 38 works (all listed here) to the corpse while miming the dead animal's movements. This is a VG+ example of a scarce early invite card.
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