100 Years Joseph Beuys
Description
Stamp design celebrating the 100th birthday of artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), published by the German Ministry of Finance and German Post Office. The stamp was printed by Giesecke+Devrient in Leipzig with 7 Pantone colours and in a print run of approximately 3,3 million. The stamp contains all the important stamps used by Beuys and is a crop of the book cover/fly-leaf of ‘Beuys, Joseph: Drawings 1947-59 I, Conversation between Joseph Beuys and Hagen Lieberknecht, Schirmer Verlag, Cologne, 1972‘ (Foto: Saša Fuis / © VG Bild-Kunst for the works of Joseph Beuys, Bonn 2020). Since Beuys supervised the design of the book cover the caption for this stamp could also be ‘Beuys designs his own stamp’.
