Andy Warhol
Joseph Beuys 1980/83
Artist
Andy Warhol
1928 Pittsburgh - New York 1987
Further information
Herausgegeben von der Edition Schellmann & Klüser, München/New York, verso mit dem Stempel.
Verso mit dem Copyright-Stempel der Andy Warhol Foundation 1980.
Vgl. Feldman/Schellmann II. 242-244 II (von III).
Verso mit dem Copyright-Stempel der Andy Warhol Foundation 1980.
Vgl. Feldman/Schellmann II. 242-244 II (von III).
Provenance
Edition Schellmann, Munich;
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia, acquired from the aforementioned;
Karl & Faber, 6 June 2019, Lot 836;
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia, acquired from the aforementioned;
Karl & Faber, 6 June 2019, Lot 836;
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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• Andy Warhol is the most significant representative of American Pop Art
• American Pop Art meets German Conceptual Art, created as a result of the encounter between the two giants of post-war art, Warhol and Beuys
• The portrait is an icon of 20th-century art
The first meeting between Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol took place in 1979 at Hans Meyer’s gallery in Düsseldorf. This meeting is captured in a historical film document. Beuys enters the gallery, walks purposefully towards the American artist and says that he had wanted to meet Warhol for a long time and that it had almost worked out in Darmstadt. The American artist smiles gently and politely asks if he may take his photograph. Beuys seems somewhat surprised and asks what he intends to use. Warhol then reaches into his jacket pocket and produces his famous Polaroid camera, with which he has taken numerous photographs that have become iconic in his oeuvre. The meeting in Düsseldorf was merely a prelude. Andy Warhol, coming from the advertising industry, the master of the striking and the dazzling surface, is the antithesis of the anti-capitalist Joseph Beuys, who sees the rise of sensory atrophy and alienation; yet they have something to say to one another and meet again shortly afterwards in New York. This led to the creation of the Warhol-Beuys series. Despite all their differences, they have one thing in common: both cultivate the aura of their existence and elevate it to the status of myth.
• American Pop Art meets German Conceptual Art, created as a result of the encounter between the two giants of post-war art, Warhol and Beuys
• The portrait is an icon of 20th-century art
The first meeting between Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol took place in 1979 at Hans Meyer’s gallery in Düsseldorf. This meeting is captured in a historical film document. Beuys enters the gallery, walks purposefully towards the American artist and says that he had wanted to meet Warhol for a long time and that it had almost worked out in Darmstadt. The American artist smiles gently and politely asks if he may take his photograph. Beuys seems somewhat surprised and asks what he intends to use. Warhol then reaches into his jacket pocket and produces his famous Polaroid camera, with which he has taken numerous photographs that have become iconic in his oeuvre. The meeting in Düsseldorf was merely a prelude. Andy Warhol, coming from the advertising industry, the master of the striking and the dazzling surface, is the antithesis of the anti-capitalist Joseph Beuys, who sees the rise of sensory atrophy and alienation; yet they have something to say to one another and meet again shortly afterwards in New York. This led to the creation of the Warhol-Beuys series. Despite all their differences, they have one thing in common: both cultivate the aura of their existence and elevate it to the status of myth.