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NRW Pays €3.25 Million to Unlock Moyland’s Beuys Collection

The deal grants Moyland broad usage rights, with copyright remaining at the Estate.

Overview

  • Eva Beuys and her children transferred comprehensive usage rights to the Museum Schloss Moyland foundation.
  • The museum can reproduce and publish images, produce audio and video, market works online, create merchandise and lend to exhibitions.
  • Years of permissions disputes that reached Germany’s Federal Court of Justice led to pulled works and imageless catalogs before this settlement.
  • Moyland will digitize roughly 6,000 early works plus 50,000 action photographs and 250,000 archival documents for an online catalog.
  • A Moyland-led show is planned at Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen in autumn 2027, with discussions under way for presentations in Venice and the Netherlands.