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Details
- Other Title
- Save the forest
- Alternative title
- Rettet den Wald
- Date
- 1972
- Media category
- Materials used
- offset lithograph
- Edition
- 54/200 [edition of 200 + 20 signed proofs]
- Dimensions
- 49.0 x 50.0 cm sheet; 83.7 x 66.0 x 3.7 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. sheet, pencil "Joseph Beuys". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 127.1990
- Copyright
- © Estate of Joseph Beuys/VG Bild-Kunst. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Joseph Beuys
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About
This image is documentation of an environment protection action on 14 December 1971, in which Beuys and a group of fifty students swept the Grafenberger woods in Düsseldorf to protest against the planned removal of a local forest to make way for tennis courts.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Ideas and Actions: Performance, Process and Documentation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Oct 1999–23 Jan 2000
Tree Story, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East, 06 Feb 2021–10 Apr 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Pilar Parcerisas, Joseph Beuys - Manresa. A spiritual geography, 'I am flying to you too, Manresa', pg. 138-163, Barcelona, 2022, 156 (illus.).
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Jörg Schellmann, Joseph Beuys Multiples, München, 1985, (illus.). cat.no. 54
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