Untitled

Joseph Beuys

1974

A sparse pencil-on-paper sheet where Beuys jots fleeting gestures and notations, treating drawing as a record of thought rather than a finished image.

You are struck by faint, hesitant lines and small clusters of scribble hovering in the upper and central white space, like the ghost of an action or a quick mnemonic left unfinished.

This modest drawing functions as evidence of Beuys’s process—an extension of his performances and teaching that helped reconceptualize drawing as a social and procedural tool within postwar art.

Palette

Art Terms

Drawing Pencil Sketch Conceptual art Performance Gestural Contemporary art

Exhibitions

BERLINART 1961–1987

1987

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

1984

Drawing in Austria and Germany

1985

The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings

1970