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Joseph Beuys
Schlitten (Sled)
dated 1969 and numbered 44 on a plaque affixed to the sled.
wooden sled, felt, belts, flashlight, fat, rope and oil
38 by 90 by 31 cm. 15 by 35 1/2 12 1/4 in.
Executed in 1969, this work is number 32 from an edition of 50 plus 5 AP, published by Galerie René Block, Berlin.
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Details
dated 1969 and numbered 44 on a plaque affixed to the sled.
38 by 90 by 31 cm. 15 by 35 1/2 12 1/4 in.
Provenance
The Peter Bendixen Collection
Christie’s Amsterdam, 4 November 2014, Lot 72
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Exhibition
Exhib. Cat., Antwerp, Galerie Ronny Van De Velde, Joseph Beuys.
Multiples, 1988, no. 5 (ed. no. unknown)
Munich, A11 Artforum, Joseph Beuys - a private collection, 1990, pp. 115, 147, no. 11 (ed. no. unknown)
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Joseph Beuys, 1993-1994, p. 75, no. 27 (ed. no. unknown)
This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, p. 77 (ed. no. unknown), and Paris, Musée National d’Art
Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, p. 269 (ed. no. unknown)
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wide White Space 1966-
1976, 1994, p. 269 (ed. no. unknown)
Houston, The Menil Collection, Joseph Beuys. Actions,
Vitrines, Environments, 2004-2005, p. 47 no. 11 (ed. no. unknown)
Literature
Germano Celant, Beuys tracce in Italia, Naples 1978, p. 32, no. 29 (ed.no. unknown)
Exh., Cat., Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Joseph Beuys, 1984, pp. 64-65, 148, no. 48 (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Beuys, Klein, Rothko, 1987, p. 34, no. 2 (ed.no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Antwerp, Galerie Ronny Van De Velde, Joseph Beuys. Multiples, 1988, n.p., no. 5 (ed.no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Munich, A11 Artforum, Joseph Beuys - A Private Collection, 1990, pp. 115, 147, no. 11 (ed.no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich (and travelling) , Joseph Beuys, 1993 - 1994, no.27, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wide White Space 1966- 1976, 1994, p. 269, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh., Cat., London, Tate Gallery, The Froelich Foundation: German and American Art from Beuys to Warhol, 1996, p. 248, no. 81 (ed.no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, Joseph Beuys. Actions, Vitrines, Environments, 2004 - 2005, p. 47, no. 11 (ed.no. unknown)
Exh., Cat., Krems an der Donau, Kunsthalle Krems, Joseph Beuys Schamane, September 2008 – march 2009, p. 31, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Catalogue Note
The Schlitten deals with the necessities of survival, in particular those associated with the semi-mythical tale of Beuys’ near-death experience following a World War II plane crash. The fighter jet, in which Beuys was flying, was allegedly shot down during a blizzard in the Crimea. Members of a nomadic tribe discovered him in the snow and tended his wounds, covering them with fat and wrapping him in felt. Although apocryphal, the story has endured and proved popular as a powerful metaphor for the near-death and rebirth of Europe and Germany after the devastation wrought by the Nazis.