Initiation Gauloise
Artwork details
- Artist
- Joseph Beuys
- Title
- Initiation Gauloise
- Description
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Edition
- 185 + 15 unnumbered A.P.
- Signature
- Signed
- Sheet
- 55.3 x 75.7 cm
- Status
- Available
- Price
- Price on request
Joseph Beuys was a talented German artist who produced exceptional works as a sculptor, graphic artist, art theorist, as well as being a passionate performance artist. Joseph Beuys served as an aircraft operator during World War II. It was during this time that he began to seriously ponder a career as an artist. After his return to Kleve, he was encouraged by a local sculptor, Walter Brux, and a painter, Hanns Lamers, to pursue art full-time. Throughout his career Beuys adopted shamanism as his preferred presentation mode of his art and also for his life.
