Lot 447 | Über Arm (Via Arm)

WALTHER, FRANZ ERHARD
1939 Fulda

Title: Über Arm (Via Arm).
Date: 1967.
Technique: Red-brown hemmed fabric strip, with wide, open loops at both ends.
Measurement: 0,5 x 508 x 22,5cm. Folded: 2,5 x 48 x 23cm.

Object no. 25 from the 58-part First Work Set created by the artist in the 1960s. There are eight complete sets of works and works from five other sets were sold individually. This work is from the edition of five. The exact edition number is not known. It is missing the white bag.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Germany

Literature:
- Adriani, Götz: Franz Erhard Walther - Arbeiten 1955-1963. Materialien zum 1. Werksatz 1963-1969, Cologne 1972, no. 25, p. 226f. (Here titled: erlangen)
- Weibel, Peter (ed.): Franz Erhard Walther - Objekte benutzen, Cologne 2014, no. 25, ill. p. 194f. (Here titled: Objekt erlangen)
- Hoban, Stephen/ Kivland, Kelly/Raymond, Yasmil (eds.): Franz Erhard Walther - First Work Set, London 2016, no. 25, ill. p. 200 (Further title: Attainment).

Two people lie face to face across from each other. The work is in between them and they stretch each an arm through the loops at the ends of the work.


Credit additional photo: Timm Rautert, Courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation, Fulda