Joseph Beuys. Das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Umsetzung vom Haus der Kunst in die Pinakothek der Moderne München. Joseph Beuys. The End of the 20th Century. The Move from the Haus der Kunst to the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich. Hrsg. von / Edited by Susanne Willisch und / and Bruno Heimberg. Mit Beiträgen von / With contributions by U We Claus, Eckart Förster, Erich Gantzert-Castrillo u.a. Doerner Institut, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München. Text in German, English.

In 1984 Joseph Beuys assembled his monumental The End of the 20th Century in Haus der Kunst in Munich: 44 basalt blocks with conical sections drilled out of them, the resulting "stoppers" slotted back into place using a bed of felt and clay. He arranged the blocks to create an animated vibrant formation that charged the entire room with meaning. The relocation of the work to the new Munich Pinakothek der Moderne set an almost impossible challenge for conservators, not least owing to the fiery debate whether an aeuvre an artist had himself laid out could be touched in the first place. But in the end, they succeeded: a key late 20th-century artwork was given a new location and none of its suggestive powers had been forfeited in the process.