Skulptur 4/86 / Sculpture 4/86

Sculptures by Erich Hauser can be found in many cities in Germany and abroad as he was one of the most successful steel sculptors working for public spaces since the 1970s. His works consist of pre-fabricated steel sheets that are always welded into hollow forms but belong to very different groups of works. The period after around 1970, for example, was marked by his “spatial pillars,” which reach into the surrounding space in differently angled segments. In the 1970s, Hauser began increasingly to break up the basic geometric forms. Views into their interior were opened, volumes and surfaces began to interplay. In the 1980s, Erich Hauser’s steel sculptures became increasingly reminiscent of organic forms, for example of crystalline origin, as in this piece from 1986. It consists of triangular steel sheets assembled into a towering column, with the formation not only reaching upwards at acute angles, but also, at about half its height, sideways, which makes it look like the snapshot of a growth process that one can imagine will develop further.