COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0004070
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Work Title (display):
Untitled
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
2003
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-03-20
Work Creator (display):
Ulrich Rückriem (German, born 1938)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
German sculptor and draughtsman. He served as an apprentice stonemason from 1956 to 1959 and continued his technical training from 1959 to 1961 as a journeyman at the cathedral restoration workshop in Cologne. It was there that he learnt all the techniques associated with architectural sculpture; the systematic and technical principles of tracery exerted a particular influence on his later work. He brought his studies to an end with two terms at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne under Ludwig Gies, feeling unsuccessful and disillusioned, and from 1963 to 1969 he worked in a studio in Schloss Nörvenich near Düren. During this period he carved portraits in stone and wood and also produced work for casting in bronze; his work in stone included sculptures influenced by abstract artists such as Maurice Lipsi (b 1898) and Fritz Wotruba as well as commissioned gravestones and monuments. In 19656 he produced a series of assembled open wooden constructions (destr., see 1981 exh. cat., p. 5) reminiscent of the early work of Mark di Suvero before turning to metal sculptures (all priv. col., see Hohmeyer, p. 15) related in their structure and colouring to work by British sculptors such as Anthony Caro, Phillip King and William Tucker. Rückriem changed his work radically after encountering Minimalism, especially the work of Carl André, in 1968. In sculptures such as Slate, Cut and Dolomite, Cut and Split (both 1968; Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Mus.) he concentrated on principles of form, in each case cutting a block of stone (of irregular or geometrical shape) into regular sections and then reassembling it. His subsequent work was characterized by geometric forms and a rational and systematic concept of structure; his insistence on making intelligible all traces of his intervention with the material made him, together with Americans such as Richard Serra and Robert Morris (ii), an important figure in establishing Process art as a response to Minimalism. Until 1976 he also applied this rationale to sculptures in wood and metal that he constructed additively in order to create a clearly visible linear subdivision of the whole form, as in Wood, Cut to Size and Fitted Together (1976; priv. col., see 1985 exh. cat., p. 53) and Steel, Cut to Size and Fitted Together (1974; Mönchengladbach, Städt. Mus. Abteiburg). After creating his first site-specific installation in an urban environment Dolomite, Cut to Size (1977; Münster, see 1983 exh. cat., p. 34), Rückriem sought to relate his sculptures to public spaces. His work and ideas on public art proved highly influential. In his sculpture in general, for which he favoured various types of granite after 1980, Rückriem continued to apply innovative techniques to questions of material, scale and proportion, using geometry and rational structuring in relation to natural forms as guiding principles. He also examined similar principles in drawings based on the ground plans of art galleries in the mid-1970s, and in 1978 he produced a series of works on paper, each entitled Drawing (e.g. Stuttgart, Staatsgal.), in which he treated simple geometrical forms similar to those employed in his sculpture. (Friedrich Meschede. "Rückriem, Ulrich." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 17 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
granite (rock)
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granite (rock)
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Work Subject:
stones (rocks)
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stones (rocks)
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
granite
Work Inscription (display):
each: 69.9 cm (H) x 77 in (W) x 499.7 cm (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
private collection
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-7148-4314-8
Image Source Reproduction page number:
176
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
180
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Donald Young Gallery
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Ulrich Rückriem
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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