GRÄSEL, FRIEDRICH1927 Bochum - 2013 OsnabrückTitle: Krupp AG: Mechanisches Tor. Subtitle: Variabel. Date: 1981. Technique: Stainless steel, welded. Measurement: 38 x 38 x 140cm. Notation: Signed and dated on the upper side left: GRÄSEL 81. Provenance:- Estate Friedrich GräselExhibitions:- Museum Bochum 1989- VAN HAM Art Estate, Cologne 2018The work is listed on the artist's official website in the online catalogue raisonné under work no. 712 (www.friedrich-graesel.de).The sculpture is a model for an unrealised outdoor sculpture for the boundary wall of the Friedrich-Krupp ironworks on Essener Straße in Bochum.Literature:- Ziebarth, Anja (ed.): Friedrich Gräsel, Cologne 2007 (The publication is accompanied by a catalogue raisonné on DVD), cat. rais. no. 712, ill.- Exhibition cat. Gräsel - Arbeitsfelder. Plastiken und Zeichnungen, Museum Bochum, Bochum 1989- Exhibition cat. Vertrauen ins Bild. 20 Years Studio Jaeschke, Museum Bochum/Kulturabteilung Bayer, Leverkusen/Stadtgalerie Kiel, Bochum 1990 - Exhibition cat. Friedrich Gräsel. Plastiken und Zeichnungen 1978 - 1992, Museen der Stadt Aachen, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ill.VAN HAM Art Estate represents the artistic estate of Friedrich Gräsel since 2015 (www.friedrich-graesel.de).