aus Künstlerpost (from Artist's Mail), 1969
Plastic envelope with margarine and white chocolate; envelope with Browncross stamp. 32 x 23 x 1 cm. Edition of 100, unsigned, numbered by the artist.
Schellmann 15
In aus Künstlerpost, Joseph Beuys turns the idea of mailed correspondence into a playful yet conceptually charged gesture. By sending “artist’s mail” made of ordinary, perishable materials, he disrupts conventional communication and redirects attention to the symbolic and sensorial qualities of the substances themselves. The work reflects Beuys’s broader interest in transformation, energy, and the poetic potential of everyday materials – an approach that shaped many of his early multiples and action-related objects.
This edition is part of the collections of The Broad, Los Angeles; the National Galleries of Scotland; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.
