Joseph Beuys art links 

Original works by Joseph Beuys available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 8 works online

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!
"Artists in Depth" page for Joseph Beuys

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Suit of Clothes

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
5 prints online

Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)

Broad Art Foundation

Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland   NEW!

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1982-83

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "B"

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
5 works online

Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland
Choose the artist from the drop-down list, and click "START"

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Lenbach House, Munich, Germany (in German)  
Artworks from the site's databank: Select the artist in the "Künstler" column

Lenbach House, Munich, Germany (in German)  
show your wound (Zeige Deine Wunde), 1974/75

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Grond, 1980-81

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Filzanzug (Felt Suit)

Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)  

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)  

S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Stag Hunt

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Crucifixion

State Museums of Berlin

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Silberbesen und Besen ohne Haare, 1972

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joseph Beuys  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Joesph Beuys at Gagosian Gallery, New York

Frieze Magazine
"Class Action"

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Highlights of Tate Modern: Lightning with Stag in its Glare", 2000 article by Adrian Searle

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Joseph Beuys: The Reader search inside Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man look inside The Essential Joseph Beuys look inside Joseph Beuys: Early Drawings look inside Joseph Beuys: Catalogue Raisonne of Multiples and Prints look inside Joseph Beuys: We Go This Way look inside "Honey Is Flowing in All Directions" look inside The Felt Hat: Joseph Beuys, a Life Told