BEUYS UND ADOLF LUTHER, JOSEPH
1921 KREFELD - 1986 DÜSSELDORF - 1912 KREFELD - 1989 KREFELD


Title: ... bis die Maus im Haus ist (bzw. die Lichtblicke des Joseph B.).
Date: 1980-82.
Technique: Mirror waste before colour photograph in object box behind concave mirror discs.
Measurement: 25,5 x 57,5 x 10cm.
Notation: Signed (Beuys). As well as signed (Beuys and Luther), dated and titled verso.
Publisher: Adolf Luther, Krefeld (publisher).


Condition:
Age-conditioned colour change to the photograph. Slight dust accumulations inside. Slight staining in the centre of the disc. Occasional cracks in the wood, especially top left. Occasional slight rubbings and stainings to the wood of the box. Otherwise in good condition.

With the stamps "Hauptstrom" and "FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY". With the enclosed information on the creation of the work by Heiner Stachelhaus. This is the first co-operation project between Beuys and Luther. The two artists and Heiner Stachelhaus travelled by train to the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen in 1978. Luther took a photo of Beuys and Stachelhaus on the train. When he made prints of it to give to the two, some of the prints were reversed. Putting the photograph together with the reversed photograph inspired the artists to create the multiple. Six prototypes were created with black-polychromed wood (two each for Beuys, Luther and Stachelhaus). The enclosed photograph shows how the present copy, the first of the prototypes, was presented to Beuys in his studio in 1981. After the prototypes, 15 more copies were made in boxes of light-coloured wood.

Literature:
- Schellmann, Jörg (ed.): Joseph Beuys - Die Multiples, catalogue raisonné of the edition objects and prints, Munich 1992 (7th ed.), cat. rais. no. 385.

Exhibitions:
- Cidade Pre0cupada, Montemor-o-Novo 2015


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