EN 3696 (Yellow Passage), not dated
Serientitel1000 Emergency Conversion Pieces
Bronze
(H x W x D)11,5 × 12 × 5,5 cm
Status
on display, room 032.2 About the workFritz Schwegler would tell the story of how, as a young man, he came upon a treasure trove in a cave in the forest. He returned there repeatedly to collect these objects in order to describe and reproduce them. This invented story served as a reference point for the long-serving professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy throughout his entire artistic career. It was also the origin of his “Urnotizen”, a collection of consecutively numbered working and conceptual documents. From these arose numerous groups of works, whose elements often refer, by means of EN identification numbers, to the corresponding records. The “Notwandlungsstücke”, 1000 brightly painted bronzes from the 1990s, present everyday subjects such as stairs and legs in a playful manner. The “88 Souveräne” date from Schwegler’s late work: small bronze reliefs freely derived from motifs in eleven volumes of his “Urnotizen”.
AccessionKemp Collection Foundation
Provenance10.1.2007 Willi Kemp (Köln 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) erworben vom Künstler; 2011 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung Willi Kemp
Inventory number0.mkp.2011.Kemp359