Andy Warhol für die Grünen, 1979
Information about the artwork
- Translated titleAndy Warhol for the Greens
- MaterialSilkscreen on paper
- Dimensions101 x 77 cm
- Year of acquisition2023
- Inventory numberUAB 1341
- On viewCurrently not exhibited
- Copyright© 2025 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
More about the artwork
Andy Warhol gave his name and sketchy selfportraits as stamps of approval on a poster for the German Green Party. Signed in black lettering against a solid background of the political party’s representative color, the slogan announces: “Andy Warhol FOR THE GREENS.” This campaign poster was commissioned by the German artist and activist Joseph Beuys, who was also a candidate for the German federal election in 1980. He was one of the founding members of The Green Party—which emerged from the antinuclear movements of the Cold War era. But Warhol was criticized for supporting “a Socialist party” and accused of making “a political statement without even knowing what it meant,” as the US American artist recorded in his diary. Yet Warhol worked with Beuys again on the “Global Art Fusion” project: they faxed drawings across the world to protest the global nuclear arms race in 1985.
