Untitled

Franz Erhard Walther

1963

A set of folded, strapped cotton cloth pieces stored in a simple wooden frame that the artist intended to be taken out, worn, and activated by viewers as a participatory sculpture.

Neat, mattress‑like rolls and tied bundles of off‑white fabric sit in the rectangular pine box, the soft, rumpled cloth and straps contrasting with the box’s hard geometry and suggesting dormant limbs and potential movement.

An early example of sculpture that relocates meaning from fixed object to bodily action, Walther’s fabric works helped open postwar art to participatory, performance‑based practices and redefined how sculpture could engage viewers.

Palette

Exhibitions

BERLINART 1961–1987

1987

Sculptors' Drawings

1986

50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss

1958

Abstractions

1988