Raumsäule / Spatial Pillar

Erich Hauser, who was largely self-taught, quickly rose to become one of the leading steel sculptors in the 1960s and realised a number of works in public space. In 1969, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry commissioned a work from his “Raumsäulen” (Spatial Pillars) group, which he and two assistants built in his workshop and had erected near the Chamber of Commerce. The sculpture consists of two similar elements, steel tubes closed at the ends, each bent several times and tilted towards the other to prop each other up in a rising movement. Neither tube looks like a heavy mass but rather like a skin enveloping the volume inside, which is emphasised by an elongated slit in each tube. This large-scale work of silvery steel seems intent on exploring its surrounding and interior space in all directions. Gravity, however, is not negated; only by a combined effort do the tubes seem able to rise upwards.

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