Joseph Beuys
(c)SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Museum Schloss Moyland, Sammlung van der Grinten Bedburg - Hau/Kreis Kleve, photo: M HKA, 2017
Batterien, 1959
Object
, 65 x 18.2 cm / 70 x 50.6 cm
pencil and tempera pain on cardboard, laid on butter paper
Batteries are ways of storing energy, in the case of Beuys’ works he views his sculptures as batteries for personal, collective and ecological development.