Joseph Beuys

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)

Bäumler Galerie, Regensburg

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Christie's London, 20 October 2004, lot 126 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jörg Schellmann, ed., Joseph Beuys: Die Multiples, Munich, 1985, no. 26, p. 23, illustration of another example

“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.” — Joseph Beuys