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An open art book lies flat on a white surface, displaying a two-page spread. Each page features a black-and-white photograph of an abstract, cubist-style metal sculpture of a head against a plain backdrop. The page numbers 98 and 99 are visible at the bottom.
A book cover with a pale lavender design, shown standing against a white background. The cover features German text in purple at the top. The central illustration is a purple line drawing of a wireframe sculpture shaped like a human head and bust. A fainter, shadowy drawing of a face is visible on the wall behind the sculpture. The Hatje Cantz publisher logo is at the bottom left.
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An open book on a white surface showing two black-and-white photographs of head sculptures. The sculpture on the left is a solid, white, stylized bust. The sculpture on the right is a contrasting wireframe, cage-like construction.
A paperback book with a light purple cover lies at an angle on a white background. The cover features German text and a purple line drawing of a three-dimensional, cage-like structure. The publisher's logo, Hatje Cantz, is visible at the bottom.
A purple-tinted book cover for Fäden, Drähte, Schnüre, Stäbe, featuring a wireframe sculpture of a human head and bust.
A table of contents in German, titled Inhalt. The page lists nine numbered chapters, an afterword, and an appendix, with corresponding page numbers aligned to the right. The text is a black serif font on a plain white background.
A spread from a German art book, pages 36 and 37. The left page displays five black-and-white photos of modernist sculptures by artists including Man Ray, Naum Gabo, and Marcel Duchamp, each with a caption. The right page contains a single column of German text with footnotes discussing the art.
A two-page spread from an art book in German, pages 62 and 63. The left page displays four black and white drawings by Hans Uhlmann, depicting abstract, wire-like heads and busts. The right page contains corresponding descriptive text about the artist and these specific works.
A book page with two black-and-white photographs, labeled Tafel 12 b and Tafel 12 c. Both show a complex wireframe sculpture of a human bust with long hair, viewed in profile. The sculpture is made of thin, dark rods forming a geometric lattice against a plain, light background.
A two-page black and white book spread, pages 114 and 115, displaying a collection of photographs of abstract wire and metal sculptures by Hans Uhlmann from around 1935-1937. The numbered images are arranged in a grid, showing various geometric and cubist-style human heads and figures.
A two-page spread from an art book in German, pages 150-151. Page 150 features three black-and-white photos of abstract sculptures. The top image shows Eva Hesse's Right After, a long, tangled web of string suspended in a gallery. The middle shows Hesse's No Title, a dense cluster of hanging black ropes. The bottom shows Gego's Reticulárea, a delicate, web-like installation filling a room. Page 151 contains a column of German text discussing the artworks.
A page from a German academic text, featuring a black-and-white image of a star chart of the northern sky on the top left. The chart shows constellations like Cepheus and Ursa Minor with lines connecting the stars. The rest of the page is filled with dense German text in paragraphs, with footnotes at the bottom.
A black-and-white two-page spread from a book, showing pages 70 and 71. On the left, labeled Tafel 1, is a photograph of a dark, stylized sculpture of a head with a long neck and rounded hair. On the right, labeled Tafel 2, is a photograph of a light-colored, more rounded sculptural head with similar simple, prominent features.
A two-page spread from a book in German. The left page features black and white photographs comparing two sculptures. At the top is a traditional statue, Berolina by Emil Hundrieser, and below are five different views of an abstract wire bust, Zur lächelnden Berolina by Hans Uhlmann from 1932. The right page contains a block of German text discussing the art.
A two-page spread from an art book, pages 144 and 145, with text in German. The left page displays two black-and-white photographs of minimalist sculptures. The top photo shows Fred Sandback's installation of thin, vertical lines in a gallery. The bottom photo shows Richard Tuttle's abstract wire piece casting a shadow on a wall. The right page consists of a full column of text with footnotes.
Fäden, Drähte, Schnüre, Stäbe
Hans Uhlmann und die Zeichnung im Raum von William Hogarth bis Eva Hesse
€ 24.99
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Author: Michael Glasmeier, Annelie Lütgens
Designed by: Neil Holt
April 2025, 180 Pages, 135 Ills.
Ebook - PDF (52,4 MB)
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5985-4

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The Berlin sculptor Hans Uhlmann (1900-1975) was a "political prisoner" from October 1933 to May 1935. In prison, he not only wrote an extremely readable diary, but also developed ideas for sculptures made of wire. After his release, he built them, photographed them and then destroyed the works for fear of discovery. The photographs have survived and form the starting point for a history of ideas of drawing in space since the 18th century and their realization by Marcel Duchamp, Julio González and Alexander Calder. After 1945, drawing in space in the form of iron sculpture, kinetics and concrete art had a significant influence on contemporary outdoor space, followed by minimalist spatial stagings. Recent examples turn the publication into a historical and contemporary panorama.

MICHAEL GLASMEIER (*1951) is an art historian, essayist, publicist, curator, and writer. From from 1992 to 2016, he was professor at the art academies in Weimar, Braunschweig and, most recently, Bremen. He lives in Berlin.

ANNELIE LÜTGENS (*1956) is an art historian, curator and publicist. She has worked at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and was head of the Graphic Collection at the Berlinische Galerie from 2011 to 2022. Among other things, she curated the 2017 retrospective on Jeanne Mammen.
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