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    (c)SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Hall Art Foundation, NY, USA
    Schlitten, 1969
    Joseph Beuys
    Object , 36 x 91 x 34 cm
    wooden sled, felt, belts, flashlight, fat and rope

    The sled makes a frequent appearance in the oeuvre of Beuys. Fascinated by this early form of transportation, Beuys explained that ‘[t]he most direct kind of movement over the earth is the sliding of the iron runners of the sleds….’1

    The sled also plays an important part in Beuys’s account of being rescued by Crimean Tatars following a plane crash in the Second World War. After his crash Tatars moved him on a sled, while he recovered from his injuries.

    Sled contains a flashlight, a lump of fat and a blanket – objects used for orientation, sustenance and warmth in extreme conditions. 

    1 Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979), 190.

    Edition: 50 + 5 exhibition copies, numbered, not signed

    Galerie Réne Block, Berlin

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