Item #54197 [CONCEPTUAL ART – CONCRETE POETRY – FLUXUS] Extensive convolute of 46 pieces of ephemera, including printed artist's multiples and graphics. Timm Ulrichs.

Ulrichs, Timm.

[CONCEPTUAL ART – CONCRETE POETRY – FLUXUS] Extensive convolute of 46 pieces of ephemera, including printed artist's multiples and graphics.

Ulrichs. Hannover and other places: predominantly self-published, ca. 1960–80. Different formats ranging from 12mo to folio (8 × 21 to 59 × 41.8 cm). 27 printed, hectographed, and photocopied leaves designed by the artist (concrete poetry, photomontages, invitations, etc.), 5 hectographed texts, 5 posters, 4 envelopes (two of which are artist's multiples and two for postal correspondence with address stamps), 4 invitation and order cards designed by the artist, one of which is stamped "Leben" / "kunst" [Life / Art] as well as the lithograph "Kubistische Landschaft" [Cubist landscape], signed and numbered. Item #54197

The convolute contains separate prints, some of which Ulrichs used for his stitched artist's books, such as the double sheet with the most diverse variants of letter omissions in the word "Fragment" (Fragment), the leaves "Typotextur/interferenz" (with handwritten correction), "Interferenzen, 1952–62" (with handwritten addition), "Goethe in der Campagna – Ein Totalkunst-Gegenbild" ("Goethe in der Campagna - A Total Art Counterimage"), "Timm Ulrichs, plagiiert" ("Timm Ulrichs, plagiarized"), "An alle! Das offene Geheimnis der Kunst" ("To All! The Open Secret of Art"), "Ideen-Tresor" ("Ideas Vault"), "Widerlegung des Identitätsprinzips" ("Refutation of the Identity Principle") (with handwritten correction), "Ich erkläre Gott zu meinem Kunstgegenstand" ("I declare God to be my art object"), 4 hectographed leaves with concrete poetry, etc. The posters among others include "Timm Ulrichs – Ich bin ein Gedicht" (Timm Ulrichs – I am a poem), "Vorsicht Kunstblätter! Nicht knicken. Timm Ulrichs: Faltblatt" (Caution art sheets! Do not fold. Timm Ulrichs: Folded sheet).