The Pack

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The Pack is a 1969 installation artwork by German artist Joseph Beuys featuring a Volkswagen bus and sleds, emblematic of his themes of survival, trauma, and postwar German identity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf installation artwork
artForm mixed-media installation
artworkStyle minimalist arrangement with symbolic materials
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Joseph Beuys NERFINISHED
creatorBirthName Joseph Beuys NERFINISHED
creatorNationality German
depicts collective flight
emergency escape
describedBySource art historical literature
museum catalogues
exhibitionPractice displayed in large gallery spaces
genre conceptual art
installation art
hasPart Volkswagen Type 2 bus NERFINISHED
row of sleds exiting the bus
sled
hasTitle Das Rudel NERFINISHED
The Pack NERFINISHED
inception 1969
inspiredBy Beuys’s wartime experiences
languageOfWorkOrName German
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Düsseldorf NERFINISHED
North Rhine-Westphalia NERFINISHED
locatedInTheCountry Germany NERFINISHED
location Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen NERFINISHED
mainSubject postwar German identity
survival
trauma
movement Fluxus NERFINISHED
postwar German avant-garde
notableFor embodiment of Beuys’s theory of social sculpture
use of everyday objects as symbolic carriers of meaning
partOf Joseph Beuys’s sculptural oeuvre
publicationDate 1969
significantEvent postwar German cultural reconstruction
significantTheme collective responsibility
healing and rescue
human vulnerability
memory of war
titleLanguage German
usesMaterial Volkswagen bus NERFINISHED
emergency supplies
fat
felt
sleds

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Joseph Beuys notableWork The Pack