3-Ton Edition

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Joseph Beuys
Germany
12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986

3-Ton Edition
1973
screenprint on soft sheet of PVC
Details
Place made
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
Medium
screenprint on soft sheet of PVC
Dimensions
46.2 x 45.5 cm (sheet)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1989
Accession number
8912G38
Signature and date
Signed recto and verso l.r., blue ballpoint pen "Joseph Beuys". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
Schellmann & Kluser 75
Media category
Print
Collection area
European Prints
Copyright
© Estate of Joseph Beuys/Copyright Agency
About

  • This screenprint on PVC was a page from a proposed underwater book project, but which was never completed. Each book was to contain a series of forty images and there would be a maximum edition of 100 copies – collectively these books would weigh three tons.

     

    The images in 3-Ton Edition were based on black-and-white photographs taken by Lothar Wolleh during the installation of Joseph Beuys’s exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in January, 1971.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

Exhibitions

  • Recent German Art from the Collection

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 28 August 1992 – 15 November 1992

  • Andreas Gursky and Melancholy in German Art

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 November 2016 – 30 April 2017
Bibliography
  • [Book] Contemporary Art including Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints.
  • [Book] Schellmann, Jorg, Kluser, Bernd. Joseph Beuys Multiples: Catalogue Raisonne, Multiples and Prints 1965-80.
  • [Book] Five Centuries of Genius: European Master Printmaking.