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22 Jan BONNEFANTEN. 1975. ADDRESSED TO WOLFGANG BECKER.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with an image of the artist and a friend at the opening of an exhibition at Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. This example has a handwritten note on the back from "Isi" dated 11.6.75 for Wolfgang Becker with some paper scuffs on the back but else VG+. Becker was the founder of the famous Neue Galerie in Aachen where Beuys made some of his earliest Aktions. Schellman: P23.

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22 Jan COSMOS UND DAMIAN. 1974

Posted at 15:32h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with an image of the Twin Towers (taken from a tourist 3-d commercial postcard) on the front which Beuys identifies with Cosmos and Damien - the black and white twin brothers who practice medicine without taking fees and were the subject of various miracles. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P20.

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22 Jan LET FLOWERS SPEAK. 1974.

Posted at 15:21h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the title work on the front, verso publisher's details. The image of flowers was taken from American sugar cube packaging. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P18

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22 Jan JOSEPH BEUYS. 1974.

Posted at 15:16h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a photograph by Klaus Staeck of Beuys' hat and heavy fur coat which had been left in such a postion as looked as if it was the artist himself. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P17.

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22 Jan JACK BURNHAM. 1974.

Posted at 15:12h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the text: Lass Jack Burnham ruhig auch mal was essen". The story is that Beuys said this "I think we should let Jack Burnham have something to eat as well" in response to the critic's remarks about Marcel Duchamp (which Beuys disagreed with). One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P15.

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22 Jan SIGNATURE 1956. 1973.

Posted at 15:11h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1973
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the artist's signature incorporating a drawing of a stag's skull. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P13.

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22 Jan DEMOCRACY IS MERRY. 1975.

Posted at 15:05h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with image of the artist and comrades leaving the administration of the Staatliche Kunstakadamie following their occupation of the building to demand open access to all to the faculty. Police were called to expel the occupiers on October 10, 1972 and the day after Beuys was dismissed from his professorial post by the University. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P8.

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22 Jan LA RIVOLUZIONE SIMO NOI. 1972.

Posted at 15:01h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1972
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with image of the artist striding towards the camera ("the revolution starts with me"). One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P7.

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22 Jan HEIDELBERG. 1970.

Posted at 14:57h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Tangent, 1968
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with image of the city where the publisher's were located with overprinted "Fluxus Zone West" stamp impression. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P3.

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22 Jan COLOGNE 1968/69.

Posted at 14:51h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Tangent, 1968
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with image of the Dom at Koln. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P2.

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22 Jan KASSEL 1968. 1968,

Posted at 14:25h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Tangent, 1968
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with image of the Friedrichplatz in Kassel - the main building used during Dokumenta. One of the unnumbered and unsigned copies. VG+. Schellman: P1.

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22 Jan

Posted at 12:40h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

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