In the 1960s Joseph Beuys created “Block Beuys”. The comprehensive complex consists of the most varied found pieces and materials chosen, created, altered and brought into unfamiliar contexts by Beuys. The objects correspond with one another and in their unmistakable formal language refer to the artist’s work as a whole. “Block Beuys” was installed in seven consecutive rooms of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. The photographer Manfred Leve documented “Block Beuys”, not only the connection between the individual pieces but also with a view to their sum, the total work of art. His black-and-white pictures, which forgo any staging, convey the aura of the work.