The "Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’" (1994) explores the fictional utopia of universal employment, adapting Kafka’s idea of communal job interviews into an artwork. The installation consists of a diverse assortment of objects and furniture, assembled to suggest a playing field for conducting mass interviews. There are over 40 tables and twice as many chairs, from classics of twentieth-century design, such as chairs by Arne Jacobsen and Charles Eames, to worn-out tables bought in flea markets, remnants of previous Kippenberger exhibitions, and even work by other artists. During the last 10 years of his life Kippenberger created a series of drawings on hotel stationery, which are commonly referred to as the 'hotel drawings' (1987–1997). Originally undertaken as ad hoc preparatory diagrams for the three-dimensional "Peter" sculptures, he later used the myriad letterheads of innumerable hotels to capture other subjects and inspirations. Collected in his travels, Kippenberger conceived them in thematic series (portraits of scientists, portraits of Frank Sinatra, depictions of war etc.). His late collages incorporate photographs (Polaroids, film stills, magazine clips), prints (one by Sigmar Polke), exhibition posters from past Kippenberger shows, some folded up origami-style, self-produced decals, and photographed and rephotographed drawings. Executed in 1996 as part of the series, "Untitled" offers a depiction of Kippenberger standing side by side with his daughter Helena as a little girl. In the final two series, Kippenberger first can be seen posing like Picasso’s last wife, Jacqueline, subtitling the piece "The Paintings Pablo Couldn’t Paint Anymore". In the complex of lithographs entitled "Medusa" (1996), Kippenberger used photography as his starting point although, this time, he himself posed for wife and photographer Elfie Semotan, mimicking the postures of the characters in the famous painting "The Raft of the Medusa" (1819) by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). In 2011, Kippenberger's "When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling" was accidentally destroyed by a janitor in a Dortmund museum who believed she was cleaning stains off of the work. In 1985, Kippenberger exhibited "Buying America and Selling El Salvador" at Metro Pictures Ltd in New York, a large installation comprising numerous sculptural works.