{"id":20280,"date":"2025-07-01T17:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/objekte\/dreiteilige-skulptur-aus-dem-vorkurs-von-josef-albers-rekonstruktion\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:52:15","slug":"three-part-sculpture-made-in-josef-albers-preliminary-course","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/objects\/three-part-sculpture-made-in-josef-albers-preliminary-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-part sculpture, made in Josef Albers&#8217; preliminary course"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-objekt'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-12 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-2'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/kuenstler_taxonomy\/takehiko-mizutani-en\/\" class=\"artist-tag ho-sd-h4\"><span>Takehiko Mizutani<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h4' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Three-part sculpture, made in Josef Albers&#8217; 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Ein d\u00fcnnes rundes Messingblech ist an der rechten Seite aufgeschnitten und bis zur Mitte geteilt. Die obere H\u00e4lfte ist nach links zu einem langen Trichter eingedreht. Entgegengesetzt ist die untere H\u00e4lfte zu einem weiteren Trichter geformt, der auch als Fu\u00df der Skulptur dient. Zwischen die beiden Trichter sind zwei kleinere, gebogene Bleche aufgesteckt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"content-reveal-controls\" @click=\"toggle\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-open\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-plus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Detailed image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-close\">\n\t\t\t\t<!--button type=\"button\" class=\"ho-button is-text\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Read less<\/span>\n<\/button-->\n<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-minus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Detailed image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/reveal>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1 padding-top-2 mobile-padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='flex-align-center-center mobile-flex-align-center-center'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot ho-sd-metadata\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center mobile-text-align-center'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Date:<br>ca. 1928 (reconstruction from the 1960s)<br><br>Inventory number:<br>1614<br><br>Object type:<br>Study<br><br>Technique \/ Material: <br>Brass sheet, spatially deformed and interlocked<br><br>Dimensions:<br>73,5 x 50 x 40 cm<br><br>Provenance:<br>Donation by Josef Albers, 1968<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1 color-fg-highlight-2'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>This work by Takehiko Mizutani was created around 1928 in Josef Albers\u2019s preliminary course. Albers encouraged his students to intensively explore and experiment with different materials. According to Albers, you first have to understand a material in order to then become able to use it constructively. To this end, the preliminary course involved working with various materials, such as paper, cardboard and later metal as well. Mizutani, for example, joined together three round pieces of sheet brass, into which he had previously cut slits, bent apart and inserted into each other. This enabled him to transform the two-dimensional sheet metal into a three-dimensional, self-supporting form.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work by Takehiko Mizutani was created around 1928 in Josef Albers\u2019s preliminary course. Albers encouraged his students to intensively explore and experiment with different materials. According to Albers, you first have to understand a material in order to then become able to use it constructively. To this end, the preliminary course involved working with various materials, such as paper, cardboard and later metal as well. Mizutani, for example, joined together three round pieces of sheet brass, into which he had previously cut slits, bent apart and inserted into each other. 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