Joseph Beuys
(c)SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Museum Schloss Moyland, Sammlung van der Grinten Bedburg - Hau/Kreis Kleve, photo: M HKA, 2017
Berg in Slowenien, 1951-1954
Drawing
, 31.6 x 31.9 cm / 50 x 53 cm
pencil on handmade paper, edges regularly torn
Beuys depicted mountainous regions as a way to represent boundlessness and freedom.
“The most important thing for me … [in the biblical story of the Sermon on the Mount] is that a crucial indication is given of the possibility open to man … That element of discussion at the summit is important for me. The summit is always the highest in man, in his inwardness. It is the absolute peak, the top.” – Joseph Beuys in Conversation with Friedhelm Mennekes’, in Mennekes 1986, p.32.