Gerlinde Beck (1930-2006) - Ohne Titel

Gerlinde Beck (1930 Stuttgart-Cannstatt - 2006 Mühlacker-Großglattbach),
Untitled, 1973.
Series of four serigraphs, 29.8 cm x 29.8 cm, each signed on the front in lead and numbered on the reverse.
Sheet 1-3 No. 74/100, Sheet 4 No. 48/100.

- Corners sometimes slightly bumped, minimal crease, otherwise in very good condition

- Dancing Sculpture -

In the sequence of images, the series illustrates a ‘dancing sculpture,’ with which Gerlinde Beck, who always understood sculpture as dynamic, sets the sculpture in motion through printmaking and thereby intensifies the sculptural tension. A conically cut cube, larger than the image format, hovers on a delicate multi-level base, where it converges with the cube at one point. This figure is pierced by a steel-girder-like plate, which serves both as the foundation and as an element of the sculpture itself. The glossy silvery tone of the background harmonizes optically with the dancing form, evoking the impression of a metallic arrangement.
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Gerlinde Beck studied from 1949 to 1956 at the Stuttgart Academy of Arts with Karl Hils, Peter Otto Heim, Gerhard Gollwitzer and Willi Baumeister. She also completed training as a metal finisher. In 1953 she made her first trip to Paris, where she discovered Henry Moore’s sculptures and was inspired by African art. In 1956 she married the musician Hans-Peter Beck and, in the same year, together with Wolfgang Reiner, founded a screen-print workshop in which prints for Ida Kerkovius and Fritz Winter were produced. After a short period working as a teacher of form design in a Stuttgart industrial company, in 1958 Gerlinde Beck worked as a freelance artist. Since the 1960s she has been among the leading sculptors of her generation in Germany. From 1965 she created graphic works in addition to sculptures. The Kunsthalle Mannheim organized a solo show of her work in 1968, and the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg did so in 1969, which also brought her international recognition. In 1974 her main work, the “Klangstraße,” was performed for the first time. In 1977 a major retrospective of her art took place at the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund. Numerous public commissions followed. In 1984 she was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1989 the title of professor. In 1996 she founded the Gerlinde-Beck-Stiftung at Schloss Dätzingen in Grafenau. With her Lichtfugen, Klangskulpturen, Klangräume, Raumchoreographien, Erinnerungs- und Ahnungsbilder she expanded the boundaries of sculpture.