This work relates to the artist's installation 'Honeypump at the Workplace', which was shown at the contemporary art exhibition Documenta VI in Kassel in 1977. The work was installed around the staircase of the Fridericianum Museum, and consisted of a series of tubes running into rooms adjacent to the staircase, through which two tons of liquid honey was pumped by a motor. For Beuys, the production of honey and the organisational system of bees in the hive were on a par with human social systems. This drawing also features the ink stamp of the Free International University, co-founded by the artist in 1972 to promote the potential for creativity within each individual.