Approach Sideways Steps

Franz Erhard Walther

1968

A set of white fabric forms stored in a simple plywood case that the artist intended to be handled and set in motion, turning viewers into participants.

It reads at first like a plain wooden shelf full of mattress‑like bundles and tied straps—soft, folded cloth compressed into modular units whose taut ties and rumpled surfaces suggest bodies and actions waiting to be released.

Walther's work helped remake sculpture from an inert object into a participatory, performative practice that made viewers co‑creators and opened a path toward body‑based and relational art.

Palette

Exhibitions

BERLINART 1961–1987

1987

Drawing in Austria and Germany

1985

Sculptors' Drawings

1986

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

1958