Word: duesseldorf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gives it quite another. Even a static sculptured figure can dramatize space somewhat, as by seeming to point or to run. But can sculpture ever convey the sense of rapid, elaborate motion through space that almost every child of the steel age daily experiences? "Yes," says Norbert Kricke of Duesseldorf, and his does...
...most other ways, Kricke has pushed to the forefront of modern German sculpture. At 37, he gets up to $25,000 each for his constructions, but still lives the life of a poor art student. Kricke occupies a spectacularly shabby studio in a kind of artists' barracks in Duesseldorf, sleeping on the balcony with his wife. Their daughter, 11, has a small room to herself down the hall. The studio proper is littered with contorted steel tubes, cutting, bending and welding equipment, and an acetylene torch with its hoses and tanks...
...older brothers had already been killed. As a student at Berlin's Academy of Fine Arts after the war, he was a disciple of Rodin, but Kricke's independence of mind soon asserted itself to make him unpopular with his academic teachers. He moved to Duesseldorf because ''it has a certain dynamism, factories going up every day," and began the independent career that led him to decisively abstract sculpture. Kricke's steel constructions have since made him an international figure, with works in German, French, Belgian, English and American museums. Four of his pieces stole...