1995.731.1-24: Health Helper!
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.731.1-24
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Title
- Health Helper!
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Gesundheitshelfer!
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- c. 1979
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219223
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Twenty-two first aid and medicinal items in enamelled metal cabinet, 2 keys on ring
- Dimensions
- 42 x 34 x 14 cm (16 9/16 x 13 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: l.c., black fiber-tip ink, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: Gesundheitshelfer! ["Health Helper!"]
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Edmée Busch Greenough Fund
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.731.1-24
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
- Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/14/2003 - 08/31/2003
- Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples from New England Collections, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 01/28/2006 - 03/08/2006
Verification Level
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