text: It is said that Beuys left his family little material inheritance apart from the copyright for his works and actions. Eva Beuys has understandably defended the image rights as her source of income. That she may, at the same time, attempt to steer the interpretation of her husband’s work in the tradition of the artist’s widow, as did Nina Kandinsky, is also possible. Yet the link to Steiner is all the clearer, right down to Beuys’s use of blackboards in his lectures.