[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG)./internal/media/dispatcher/125934/fullOld Figure1960–196391 × 92 × 200 cmWood, Tin, Copper, Mattresses, SheetErworben unter Mitwirkung des Vereines Freunde der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere117490
A key protagonist of the postwar avant-garde, Walter Pichler is regarded as a radical visionary. In the 1960s, he develops utopian projects straddling the lines between architecture, design, and sculpture. For “Old Figure,” he sets an upright metal object on the head end of a bed made of layered mattresses. Beds, cots, and stretchers figure in many of the artist’s works as grim emblems of frailty, illness, and death, attesting to his deeply felt awareness of the finitude of human—and ultimately, his own—existence. Hence the central role of the fusion of life and art in Pichler’s oeuvre: this installation originally had its place right next to his own bed.Sculpture1020334485414https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-85414/manifest